Darija – English dictionary
Look up a word in English or in Darija, in Latin letters or in Arabic script: 2,876 Moroccan words, 1,900 Algerian words and 3,514 Tunisian words, explained in English.
The dictionaries
Moroccan Darija
2,876 words · Morocco
Algerian Darja
1,900 words · Algeria
Tunisian Derja
3,514 words · Tunisia
One word, three dialects
| English | Moroccan | Algerian | Tunisian |
|---|---|---|---|
| a lot | bzaf بزّاف | bezzaf بزاف | barcha برشا |
| now | daba دابا | dok دوك | tawa توا |
| how | kifach كيفاش | kifach كيفاش | kifech كيفاش |
| why | 3lach علاش | 3lah علاه | 3lech علاش |
| how much | ch7al شحال | ch7al شحال | 9adech قداش |
| where | fin فين | win وين | win وين |
| a little | chwiya شوية | chwiya شوية | chwaya شوية |
| there is | kayn كاين | kayen كاين | thama ثمة |
| thank you | chokran شكرا | saha صحا | 3aychek عيشك |
| work | khdma خدمة | khedma خدمة | 5edma خدمة |
| car | tomobil طوموبيل | tomobil طوموبيل | karhba كرهبة |
About
Darija is the Arabic spoken every day across the Maghreb. It is rarely taught in school but written everywhere on phones, mostly in Latin letters, with digits for the sounds the Latin alphabet has no letter for: that is Arabizi, where “3” stands for ayn and “9” for qaf.
Every word in this dictionary is found in real texts, then explained by language models: its meanings, usage, an example and its spellings. The English text is translated from the dictionary’s French entries and checked against them. Method · Sources.