wa3er واعر
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“wa3er” (واعر) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning great, awesome, skilled.
Meanings
- great, awesome, skilled
- hard, tough
- powerful, intense
Usage
Wa3er is a very common adjective, especially among young people, and its meaning depends on context. As praise, it means "great, excellent" or, for a person, "skilled": tbbakh wa3er, "an excellent cook". It can also mean "difficult" or "harsh": an exam wa3er, a life wa3ra. For a person, it can also mean "tough" or "formidable". It is often reinforced with nit, "really". It agrees in gender and number: wa3ra for the feminine, wa3rin for the plural. The register is informal.
Example
هادشي واعر نيت
hadchi wa3r nit
“That is really awesome.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wa3er” but also “wa3r”, “waer” and “wa3ra”. 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 “wa3er” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “hard, difficult”; “great, awesome”: wa3er in Algerian.