sri3 سريع
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“sri3” (سريع) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning fast, quick.
Meanings
- fast, quick
- prompt, lively
Usage
Sri3 describes a fast person, vehicle or animal: tomobil sri3a, "a fast car". The feminine is sri3a and the plural is sri3in. To say "quickly" as an adverb, sri3 is not used: say b sor3a, dghya or b zzerba. In speech you also hear zerban, "in a hurry", for someone who moves fast. The word is neutral and common, but sounds slightly more polished than its colloquial equivalents. It is written sri3 or sari3, the latter being closer to Standard Arabic.
Example
راه سريع هاداك الحيوان لي داز
rah sri3 hadak l7ayawan li daz
“He's fast, that animal that just went by.”
Forms
| feminine | sri3a |
|---|---|
| plural | sri3in |
| feminine plural | sri3at |
Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sri3” but also “sari3”, “seri3” and “sri3a”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “sri3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “fast, quick”; “quickly (adverbial use)”: sri3 in Algerian.