radio راديو
Algerian Darja · noun
“radio” (راديو) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning radio, radio station.
Meanings
- radio, radio station
- X-ray
- radio set
Usage
Radio is a fully integrated loanword, used daily. It refers to the station or the broadcast (sme3tha f radio, I heard it on the radio) and also to the device. As in informal French, it is very often used for a medical X-ray: dir radio (to get an X-ray), radio taʿ rjel (X-ray of the legs). Context shows whether the medical or the broadcasting sense is meant. The word is invariable and generally treated as a feminine noun. To talk about a specific station, one often says radio followed by the name, or izaʿa in a more formal register.
Example
الطبيب قالّي روح دير راديو لصدرك.
tbib 9alli rouh dir radio l sadrek.
“The doctor told me to go and get a chest X-ray.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “radio” but also “radyo” and “radiou”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “radio” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “X-ray”; “radio, radio set”: radio in Moroccan.