wa7ed واحد
Tunisian Derja · numeral
“wa7ed” (واحد) is a numeral in Tunisian Derja meaning one (number), only one.
Meanings
- one (number), only one
- someone, a person
- a certain (indefinite article)
Usage
Wa7ed is the numeral "one". Its feminine is wa7da. After a noun, it stresses uniqueness: khou wa7ed (just one brother), dam wa7ed (one and the same blood). Before a noun, with the article, it works as an indefinite article: wa7ed er-rajel (a man, a certain man). Used alone, it means "someone": jé wa7ed (someone came). Wa7da alone can also mean "once" or give the hour: el-wa7da (one o'clock). Not to be confused with wa7dou (alone, by oneself), which takes suffixes: wa7di, wa7dek, wa7dha.
Example
عندي خو واحد برك
3andi khou wa7ed bark
“I have only one brother.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wa7ed” but also “wahed”, “we7ed”, “wehed”, “wa7id” and “whed”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find واحد and وحد, 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 “wa7ed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “one (number)”; “a, an (indefinite article)”: wahed in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “one (number)”; “a, a certain (indefinite article)”: wahed in Algerian.