t79i9 تحقيق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“t79i9” (تحقيق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning investigation (police, justice).
Meanings
- investigation (police, justice)
- interrogation, questioning
- investigative report
Usage
T7qiq primarily means an official investigation, conducted by the police, the gendarmerie or the justice system. It is found in expressions like fta7o t7qiq, "they opened an investigation", or da7kouh l t7qiq, "he was taken in for questioning". The register comes from Standard Arabic, but the word is very common in the news and in daily life. In a casual, ironic use, dar lia t7qiq means "he grilled me with questions". In written arabizi, the q is often written 9, hence the spellings t79i9 or ta79i9.
Example
البوليس فتحو تحقيق فهاد القضية
lbolis fet7o t79i9 f had l9adiya
“The police opened an investigation into this case.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “t79i9” but also “ta79i9”, “te79i9”, “tahqiq” and “ta7qiq”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.