match ماتش
Algerian Darja · noun
“match” (ماتش) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning match (sport).
Meanings
- match (sport)
Usage
Borrowed from French, fully integrated into darja and much more common than standard mubara. It mainly refers to a football match, but is used for any sport. It takes the Arabic article: el match. The most frequent plural is matchat. It is used in expressions such as yel3eb match ("to play a match") and nchoufou el match ("we watch the match"). In darja, the verb for winning a match is rbeh or ghleb.
Example
نشوفو الماتش ليوم في القهوة
nchoufou el match lyoum fel qahwa
“We're watching the match today at the café.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “match” but also “mattch” and “matche”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.