saf7a صفحة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“saf7a” (صفحة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning page (book, notebook).
Meanings
- page (book, notebook)
- web page, Facebook page
Usage
Saf7a refers to a page of a book, notebook or newspaper. It also refers to an online page, especially a Facebook page, a very common usage in Tunisia: saf7a mta3 ma7all (a shop's page). The plural is sfa7i or saf7at. Saf7a bidha (blank page) is also used figuratively: nibdew saf7a jdida (we turn the page, we start from scratch). In conversations on social media, the French word page is also often heard.
Example
حلّوا الكتاب في الصفحة عشرين
7ellou el ktab fi saf7a 3echrin
“Open the book to page twenty.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “saf7a” but also “safha” and “saf7aa”. 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 “saf7a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “page (book, notebook, website)”; “fresh start (figurative)”: saf7a in Moroccan.