dhaghet ضغط
Tunisian Derja · noun
“dhaghet” (ضغط) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning pressure.
Meanings
- pressure
- blood pressure, hypertension
- stress, mental pressure
Usage
Dhaghet means pressure in both the physical and the figurative sense. In everyday life in Tunisia, the word very often refers to blood pressure: 3andou edhaghet (he has high blood pressure), edhaghet tla3lou (his blood pressure has gone up). Figuratively, it means stress or pressure one is under: fama dhaghet kbir 3lih (he is under heavy pressure). The same form is also used as a verb, dhghat 3la (he pressed on, he put pressure on). Context makes it possible to tell the noun from the verb.
Example
بابا عندو الضغط ولازمو يرتاح.
baba 3andou edhaghet w lazmou yerta7.
“My father has high blood pressure and he needs to rest.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dhaghet” but also “dhaght”, “da8et” and “dhagh6”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 6 is emphatic ta (ط); 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “dhaghet” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “pressure”; “blood pressure, hypertension”: daght in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “stress, mental pressure”; “blood pressure”: dghet in Algerian.