majmou3a مجموعة
Algerian Darja · noun
“majmou3a” (مجموعة) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning group (of people).
Meanings
- group (of people)
- online group (WhatsApp, Facebook)
- set, collection
Usage
Majmou3a means "group": a group of people, a work team or, very often today, a WhatsApp or Facebook group ("ndirou majmou3a", we create a group). The word comes from Modern Standard Arabic, but it is well established in everyday use. In speech, it competes with the loanword "groupe", very frequent in Algeria ("dkhalt l groupe"). In a more formal register, it also refers to a set of objects or an industrial group. The plural is majmou3at.
Example
درنا مجموعة في واتساب للعايلة
derna majmou3a f whatsapp lel 3ayla
“We created a WhatsApp group for the family.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “majmou3a” but also “majmo3a” and “mejmou3a”. 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 “majmou3a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “group (of people)”; “set, collection, assortment”: majmo3a in Moroccan.