fa7s فحص

Tunisian Derja · noun

“fa7s” (فحص) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning medical examination, check-up.

Meanings

1. medical examination, check-up
2. to examine, inspect

Usage

Fa7s mainly means a medical examination: "3mal fa7s" (to have an examination), "fa7s kamel" (full check-up), "fa7s mta3 dam" (blood test). The corresponding verb, "fa7as", means to examine or inspect: the doctor, the mechanic or the customs officer "yef7as". Pitfall: a school exam is called "imti7en" or "examen", never "fa7s". For a car's technical inspection, people generally say "visite". The word is neutral and used in all registers.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fa7s” but also “fahs”, “fa7es” and “fahes”. 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 “fa7s” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to examine, to auscultate (doctor)”; “to check, to inspect”: f7es in Moroccan.