ma7doud محدود
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“ma7doud” (محدود) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning limited, restricted.
Meanings
- limited, restricted
- of limited ability (person)
Usage
Ma7doud means "limited": limited means (imkaniyat ma7douda), a limited number, limited time. Applied to a person, it is often pejorative and means "not very capable" or "narrow-minded", like the colloquial English "he's limited". It is heard a lot about football players or political leaders. It is intensified with barcha or yesser: ma7doud barcha. The feminine is ma7douda and the plural is ma7doudin. Depending on context, it can therefore be neutral or openly critical.
Example
الوقت محدود، لازمنا نكمّلو اليوم.
el wa9t ma7doud, lezemna nkamlou el youm.
“Time is limited, we have to finish today.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ma7doud” but also “mahdoud”, “ma7dud” and “mahdud”. 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 “ma7doud” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “limited, restricted”; “reserved, not sociable”: m7doud in Moroccan.