3amaliyat عمليات
Moroccan Darija · noun
“3amaliyat” (عمليات) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning surgical operations.
Meanings
- surgical operations
- operations, procedures
Usage
3amaliyat is the plural of 3amaliya. The most common meaning is surgical operations, in the construction dir 3amaliyat, "to undergo operations". It also refers to operations in a technical or administrative sense: banking, calculation, police. Be careful with the verb: dir 3amaliya is used both for the patient who is operated on and for the surgeon who operates. Context decides.
Example
عمرك تدير زوج عمليات متابعين
3emrek tdir zouj 3amaliyat mtab3in
“Never do two operations in a row.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3amaliyat” but also “3amaliat”, “3amaliyate” and “amaliyat”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.