mrawa7 مروح
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“mrawa7” (مروح) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning heading home, returning.
Meanings
- heading home, returning
- coming back from
Usage
Mrawa7 is the participle of rawa7 (to go home). It describes someone who is on the way back, usually toward home. It is often used in temporal clauses: w ana mrawa7 (on my way home, as I was heading home). The feminine is mrawa7a and the plural is mrawa7in. Followed by min, it means "coming back from" a place. Note that rawa7 primarily means returning home or to one's home country, not simply leaving. The word is common in all registers of conversation.
Example
هو مروح من بلاد فيها الفيروس ولا تعدى
houa mrawa7 min bled fiha ilvirus wila ti3da
“Either he's coming back from a country where the virus is present, or he caught it.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mrawa7” but also “merwe7”, “mrawah” and “mrawa7a”. 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 “mrawa7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “on the way home”; “back home, returned”: mrawa7 in Algerian.