majmou3 مجموع

Algerian Darja · noun

“majmou3” (مجموع) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning total, sum.

Meanings

1. total, sum
2. gathered, united

Usage

Majmou3 means first of all the total or the sum. It is found in school, sports or accounting contexts: "majmou3 nnoqat" (the total of the points), "lmajmou3" (the total of a bill). The word comes from Standard Arabic and keeps a rather formal register. In speech, people more readily say "kolech" or "ttotal". As an adjective, it means "gathered, united". It appears mainly in a very common blessing formula: "rabbi ykhalli chamlkom majmou3", may God keep your family united. This formula is often addressed as thanks, for example to a new follower on social media.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “majmou3” but also “majmo3”, “medjmou3” and “majmu3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.

Type “majmou3” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “tidy, put in order”; “gathered, grouped”: mjmou3 in Moroccan.