How to say “apartment building” in Darija
In Moroccan, you say “3imara”; in Algerian, “batima”; in Tunisian, “3mara”.
In Moroccan Darija
3imara عمارة
A noun meaning “apartment building, multi-storey building”; “edifice, construction”.
المهندس سويب البلان ديال عمارة جديدة هربانة: “The engineer drew up the plan for a new, really original building.”
In Algerian Darja
batima باطيما
A noun meaning “apartment building, residential block”; “building (in the general sense)”.
نسكن في الباطيما لي حدا الجامع: “I live in the building next to the mosque.”
In Tunisian Derja
3mara عمارة
A noun meaning “building, apartment block”.
سكنّا في عمارة قريبة من البحر: “We lived in a building near the sea.”