sa77i صحي
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“sa77i” (صحي) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning healthy, good for your health.
Meanings
- healthy, good for your health
- health-related, medical
Usage
Sa77i, derived from sa77a, "health", describes what is good for your health: mekla sa77iya, "healthy food". It is also used as a relational adjective in administrative expressions: ta2min sa77i, "health insurance", wadh3 sa77i, "state of health". The feminine is sa77iya. It should be distinguished from s7i7 ("true, solid") and sa7i ("awake, lucid"), which arabizi writes in a very similar way. Context and the doubled 7 help tell them apart.
Example
زيت الزيتونة صحي برشا
zit ezzitouna sa77i barcha
“Olive oil is very good for your health.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sa77i” but also “sa7i”, “sahi”, “sa7y” and “sahhi”. 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 “sa77i” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “healthy, good for you”; “hygienic, clean”: s7i in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “healthy, good for your health”; “sanitary, health-related”: sahhi in Algerian.