mafhoum مفهوم
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“mafhoum” (مفهوم) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning understood, understandable, clear.
Meanings
- understood, understandable, clear
- notion, concept
Usage
Mafhoum is used mostly as an adjective, meaning "understood" or "clear". Mouch mafhoum, "unclear, incomprehensible", is very common for talking about a confused speech or a situation one cannot make sense of. Mafhoum? or mafhoum! is also used to check or confirm that one has made oneself understood, a bit like "is that clear?". As a noun, meaning "notion" or "concept", it belongs rather to an intellectual register, that of debates or the media. The feminine is mafhouma.
Example
الكلام متاعو موش مفهوم بالكل.
el klem mte3ou mouch mafhoum bel kol.
“What he says isn't clear at all.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mafhoum” but also “mafhom”, “mafhoom” and “mefhoum”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mafhoum” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “understandable, clear”; “notion, concept”: mfhoum in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “understood, clear”; “understandable”: mafhoum in Algerian.