mawqi3 موقع

Algerian Darja · noun

“mawqi3” (موقع) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning website.

Meanings

1. website
2. location, place

Usage

In darja, mawqi3 is used mainly for a website. One says mawqi3 iliktruni in a more polished register, but plain lmawqi3 is enough in conversation. It is often contrasted with buying in a shop or associated with apps: tatbi9 wela mawqi3, "an app or a website". The sense of "location" or "place" also exists, but it belongs to a more formal register, that of the media or administration. In everyday conversation, people prefer blassa or lblasa for a place. Many speakers also simply say "le site" in French.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mawqi3” but also “maw9i3” and “mawki3”. 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; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “mawqi3” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “site, place, location”; “website”: maw9i3 in Moroccan.