l9ab لقب
Algerian Darja · noun
“l9ab” (لقب) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning title (sports, honorary).
Meanings
- title (sports, honorary)
- family name
- nickname
Usage
La9ab comes from Standard Arabic but is very common in Algeria. In sport and the media, it means a title, such as a championship, or an honorary distinction: rbeh le9ab, "he won the title". In administration and at school, la9ab mostly means the family name, as opposed to ism, the first name. It can also mean a nickname or sobriquet given to someone. The register is neutral to formal.
Example
ربحو اللقب هاد العام
rebhou le9ab had l3am
“They won the title this year.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “l9ab” but also “la9ab”, “laqab” and “lqab”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “l9ab” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “title (sports, honorific)”; “nickname”: la9ab in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “surname”; “title (sports, honorific)”: la9ab in Tunisian.