missage ميساج
Algerian Darja · noun
“missage” (ميساج) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning message (text, written message).
Meanings
- message (text, written message)
- message, idea conveyed
Usage
Missaj is an adapted borrowing from French "message", very common in speech. It first refers to a text message or a message sent on an app: b3atli missaj ("he sent me a message"). By extension, it also refers to the message or moral of a video, film or sketch: missaj wa3er ("a strong message"). The plural is missajat. The Arabic equivalent risala is more formal and little used in conversation. The word is informal and suitable for all ages.
Example
كي توصل ابعثلي ميساج
ki twasel ab3athli missaj
“When you arrive, send me a message.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “missage” but also “missaj”, “msaj”, “mesage” and “message”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “missage” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “message, text message”; “message left for someone”: message in Moroccan.