do5an دخان
Tunisian Derja · noun
“do5an” (دخان) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning smoke.
Meanings
- smoke
- tobacco, cigarettes
Usage
"Do5an" first means smoke, from a fire, a car or a cigarette. It also means tobacco and, more broadly, cigarettes as a product. You buy "do5an" at the tobacconist, and you ask "3andek do5an?" to cadge a cigarette. "Ycharab do5an" means "to smoke", or "to be a smoker". For a single cigarette, people usually say "sigara". The word is common, neutral and used in all registers.
Example
الكوجينة عبات دخان.
el kojina 3abbet do5an.
“The kitchen filled up with smoke.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “do5an” but also “dou5an”, “dokhan”, “dkhan” and “dou5en”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “do5an” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “smoke”; “cigarette smoke”: dokhan in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “cigarettes, tobacco”; “smoke”: dokhan in Algerian.