What is "mafaan"?

Pronunciation: ma-fa-an

What does 'mafaan' mean? To simply put it, it means a 'hassle'.

"Lay ho mafaan" = "You're being a real hassle" or "You're being a pain in the a**."

A few things that comes to mind when we think of "mafaan":

  • Traffic
  • Holidays
  • Traveling during the holidays
  • Waiting in long lines
  • Your wife / SO
  • Your husband / SO
  • Your kids or maybe someone else's kids
  • A relative

Mafaan can be anything - a person, a place or a thing. A situation can be mafaan.