na7a نحى
Tunisian Derja · verb
“na7a” (نحى) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning remove, take off.
Meanings
- remove, take off
- lower a price
- dismiss someone from a post
Usage
na77a (imperfect yna77i) is a very common verb for removing or taking off something: a piece of clothing, a stain, the seeds of a fruit, a part. "Na77i rou7ek" means "move over". In commerce, it is used for haggling: "na77ili chwaya" (take a little off the price for me). In the passive or in the third person plural, "na77awh" means that a person has been dismissed from their duties. It takes "men" to indicate what something is removed from.
Example
نحّى ال بلاكة و جاي يعارك ,
naha el blaka w jey y3arek ,
“He took off the plate and is coming to pick a fight.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “na7a” but also “na77a”, “naha”, “na77i”, “nahha” and “n7a”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find نحى and نحا, all the same word.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “na7a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to remove, take off”; “to move aside”: n77a in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to remove, take off”; “to move aside, set aside”: na7a in Algerian.