wehhed وحّد
Moroccan Darija · verb
“wehhed” (وحّد) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to unify, to bring together.
Meanings
- to unify, to bring together
- to profess God's oneness
Usage
Wehhed, with a doubled h, means "to unify, to bring together, to get people to agree": wehhdo lkelma ("come to an agreement"). Its most frequent everyday use is the expression wehhed llah, literally "profess the oneness of God", said to someone who is angry or anxious to mean "calm down, pull yourself together"; the expected reply is la ilaha illa llah. Note: do not confuse it with wahed ("one") or with the form wahd in wahd ssi ("a certain"), which are very common and are written identically without vowels, which explains the confusions found in sources.
Example
خاصنا نوحّدو الكلمة ديالنا
khassna nwehhdo lkelma dyalna
“We have to come to an agreement.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanw77ed | w77edt | |
| nta (you, m.) | katw77ed | w77edti | w77ed |
| nti (you, f.) | katw77di | w77edti | w77di |
| howa (he) | kayw77ed | w77ed | |
| hiya (she) | katw77ed | w77dat | |
| 7na (we) | kanw77do | w77dna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katw77do | w77edto | w77do |
| homa (they) | kayw77do | w77do |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wehhed” but also “w77ed”, “wa77ad”, “wahhed”, “wehed” and “whd”. 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.