fa9 فاق
Tunisian Derja · verb
“fa9” (فاق) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to wake up, come out of sleep.
Meanings
- to wake up, come out of sleep
- to realize, notice (with b-)
- to come to one's senses
Usage
Fa9 is the common verb for "to wake up": fe9t, "I woke up", nfi9, "I wake up". "To wake someone up" uses the causative form fayya9. With the preposition b-, fa9 b means "to realize, to catch on to": fa9 bih, "he realized it". Figuratively, fa9 means "to open one's eyes, come to one's senses": fi9!, "wake up!", said to someone naive or distracted. Fa9 3la can also mean "to emerge from, recover" from a situation. The present tense is conjugated with the vowel i: nfi9, tfi9, yfi9.
Example
اليوم فقت مع الستّة الصباح.
lyoum fe9t m3a setta sbe7.
“Today I woke up at six in the morning.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fa9” but also “fe9”, “faa9”, “fe9t” and “fi9”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “fa9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to wake up”; “to realize, catch on”: fa9 in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to wake up”; “to realize, catch on”: faq in Algerian.