ay wa7ed اي واحد
Tunisian Derja · pronoun
“ay wa7ed” (اي واحد) is a pronoun in Tunisian Derja meaning anyone, anybody.
Meanings
- anyone, anybody
- anyone (in questions)
Usage
Ay wa7ed is used to refer to any person at all, without preference: "anyone" or "whoever". The gloss "everyone" is misleading: for "everybody", people rather say koll 7ad or ennes lkol. In a negative sentence, 7atta 7ad ("nobody") is generally used rather than ay wa7ed. The phrase ay wa7ed fihom ("any one of them") is common. In the feminine, ay wa7da can be said for a woman or a feminine object. The register is neutral and common in speech.
Example
أيّ واحد ينجم يعملها، ساهلة.
ay wa7ed ynajem ya3melha, sehla.
“Anyone can do it, it's easy.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ay wa7ed” but also “ay wahed”, “ay wa7d”, “ayy wa7ed” and “ai wa7ed”. 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.
Type “ay wa7ed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “anyone, whoever”; “everyone, everybody”: ay wa7d in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “anyone, anybody”; “whoever”: ay wahed in Algerian.