nchar نشر

Algerian Darja · verb

“nchar” (نشر) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to publish, post online.

Meanings

1. to publish, post online
2. to hang out (laundry)
3. to spread, circulate

Usage

The verb nchar (imperfect ynchar) is used for "publishing" a video, a post or an announcement: "nchar vlog jdid". In everyday life it has another very common meaning: to hang laundry out to dry, as in "nchar le linge" or "nchar el hwayej". This second meaning may surprise a learner who only knows the formal sense. The word is also used for "spreading" news or a religion. The verbal noun nachr (publication) belongs more to a formal or media register. For "sharing" on social networks, one also often hears partagé, borrowed from French.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “nchar” but also “nechar”, “nshar” and “ncher”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “nchar” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to hang out (laundry)”; “to publish, broadcast”: nsher in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to hang out (laundry)”; “to publish, post”: nchar in Tunisian.