The word "essawi" is a term used to refer to a person from the Essaouira region in Morocco. The pronunciation of this word is [ɛsːawi], with two syllables. The first syllable is pronounced with an open mid-front vowel, while the second syllable has a long "s" sound before a short "a" sound, a voiced "w" sound, and a short "i" sound at the end. The spelling of "essawi" accurately represents the phonetic sounds of the word in Moroccan Arabic.