mo3adal معدل
Algerian Darja · noun
“mo3adal” (معدل) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning grade average.
Meanings
- grade average
- average, mean rate
- modified (participle m3addel)
Usage
In the school context, mo3adal refers to the average mark obtained, especially in the bac. Students say jab mo3adal, "he got a (good) average", and people make wishes such as Allah ya3tik mo3adal. The word is also used in the general sense of "average" or "rate": mo3adal el qobol, "the admission rate". The French "la moyenne" is very common as a competitor. Pronounced m3addel, the same word means "modified, adjusted": a car or an engine that is m3addel.
Example
جاب معدّل مليح في الباك
jab mo3adal mlih fel bac
“He got a good average in the bac.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mo3adal” but also “m3adel”, “mo3addal” and “mu3adal”. 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 “mo3adal” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “average (school grade)”; “average, mean rate”: mo3eddal in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “average (school grade)”; “average, average rate”: m3addel in Tunisian.