soura صورة
Algerian Darja · noun
“soura” (صورة) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning image, picture quality.
Meanings
- image, picture quality
- photo
- reputation, projected image
Usage
Soura is used for image in the broad sense: the picture of a video (« soura mliha », good picture quality) or the image one projects of oneself or one's country. For a photo, the most spontaneous word remains tswira (plural tsawer). One says « dir tswira » (take a photo), or the borrowed form tof. Soura can also mean a photo, in a slightly more neutral register. Do not confuse it with sourat, a sura of the Quran, which has the same root but a distinct meaning.
Example
الفيديو مليح بصّح الصورة ماشي واضحة.
Lvideo mlih bessah soura machi wadha.
“The video is good, but the picture isn't clear.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “soura” but also “sora”, “sowra”, “sura” and “soora”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “soura” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “image (screen, television)”; “photo, photograph”: soura in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “picture, photo”; “film exposure”: soura in Tunisian.