modmen مدمن
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“modmen” (مدمن) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning drug addict, dependent.
Meanings
- drug addict, dependent
- hooked, obsessed (informal)
Usage
Modmen comes from Standard Arabic, but it is in common use in Tunisia. Literally, it refers to a person dependent on drugs, alcohol or tobacco. In conversation it often takes a playful sense, "hooked": modmen 3al 9ahwa, "hooked on coffee", or modmen 3al facebook. The typical construction is modmen 3la followed by the noun. The feminine is modmna and the plural is modmnin. In a medical or social sense, the tone is serious and can be pejorative.
Example
ولّيت مدمن على القهوة.
walit modmen 3al 9ahwa.
“I've become hooked on coffee.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “modmen” but also “mudmin”, “moudmen”, “modmin” and “mdmen”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “modmen” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “dependent, addict”; “excessively keen, hooked”: modmin in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “hooked, passionate about”; “addicted (drugs, tobacco)”: medmen in Algerian.