mokhrij مخرج
Algerian Darja · noun
“mokhrij” (مخرج) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning film director, stage director.
Meanings
- film director, stage director
- exit, way out (makhraj)
Usage
Mokhrij means the director of a film, a series or a video. It is a word from Standard Arabic that became common thanks to television and social media. In everyday speech, the French word "réalisateur" is also heard a lot. It is readily used as a compliment for a videomaker: rak mokhrij, "you film like a pro". Written without vowels, the same word can be read makhraj, "exit, way out", especially figuratively (ma kayen hatta makhraj, "there is no way out at all"); in that sense, people rather say "the exit".
Example
المخرج تاع هاد المسلسل خدم مليح.
lmokhrij ta3 had lmousalsal khdem mlih.
“The director of this series did a good job.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mokhrij” but also “mou5rij”, “mokhrej”, “mo5rij” and “moukhrij”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “mokhrij” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “film director”; “exit, way out”: mo5rij in Tunisian.