rkhis رخيص
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“rkhis” (رخيص) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning cheap, inexpensive.
Meanings
- cheap, inexpensive
- low-value, shoddy
Usage
Rkhis means that a product or service costs little. It agrees in gender and number: rkhisa in the feminine, rkhas in the plural. Its opposite is ghali (expensive). It is heard constantly at the market and in talk about prices, for example "bel rkhis" (at a low price) or "rkhis barcha" (very cheap). Like English "cheap", it can take a pejorative sense: a poor-quality object, or petty, unworthy behavior. Context tells which is meant. Said of a person, this sense is offensive. The corresponding verb is rkhes: the price went down.
Example
الخضرة اليوم رخيصة في السوق.
el khodhra lyoum rkhisa fel souk.
“Vegetables are cheap at the market today.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “rkhis” but also “r5is”, “rkhiss”, “rakhis” and “rkhisa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “rkhis” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “cheap, inexpensive”; “cheap, worthless (figurative)”: rkhis in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “cheap, inexpensive”; “low-quality”: rkhis in Algerian.