sa77a7 صحح
Tunisian Derja · verb
“sa77a7” (صحح) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to correct (error, paper).
Meanings
- to correct (error, paper)
- to certify (signature, document)
Usage
The verb sa77a7 / ysa77a7 means to correct a mistake, a paper or an exercise. A teacher ysa77a7 his pupils' papers. It also has a very common administrative sense: to have a document or signature certified at the town hall. In this sense, one says sa77a7 el emdha, "to certify the signature", or sa77a7 un contrat. For an English speaker, this second sense may be surprising, since nothing is "corrected": a document is being authenticated. The participle msa77a7 describes a certified document.
Example
لازمني نمشي للبلدية نصحح الإمضاء.
lezemni nemchi lel baladiya nsa77a7 el emdha.
“I have to go to the town hall to have the signature certified.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sa77a7” but also “sa7a7”, “sahah” and “sa77ah”. 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 “sa77a7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to correct (a paper, an error)”; “to fix, set right”: s77e7 in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to correct a mistake”; “to fix, set right”: sahhah in Algerian.