sejjel سجل
Algerian Darja · verb
“sejjel” (سجل) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to record (audio, video).
Meanings
- to record (audio, video)
- to register, enrol
- to score (a goal)
Usage
Sejjel covers both audio or video recording ("sejjel had l'vocal") and administrative or school registration ("sejjelt weldi f'lekol"). In the reflexive sense, you say tsejjel (to register oneself, sign up). In football, it also means to score a goal. Do not confuse it with the noun sijil, heard in "sijil tijari" (commercial register): this noun is written with the same consonants but pronounced differently. The verb is common and used in a neutral register.
Example
سجّلت فالجامعة البارح
sejjelt f'ljami3a lbareh
“I registered at the university yesterday.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sejjel” but also “sajjel”, “sajel”, “sedjel” and “sejel”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sejjel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to register, enroll (officially)”; “to note down, write”: sejjel in Moroccan.