belgha بلغة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“belgha” (بلغة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning babouche, traditional slipper.
Meanings
- babouche, traditional slipper
Usage
Belgha (plural blagh) refers to the traditional leather babouche, often yellow for men and embroidered for women. It is worn with the djellaba, especially on Fridays and during festivals. The word cherbil refers rather to the embroidered women's babouche. Written pitfall: the same sequence of Arabic letters can also be read b-logha, "in a language". That is the meaning of the corpus sentences, which have nothing to do with the babouche. Only context and vocalization distinguish the two words.
Example
شريت بلغة صفرا للعيد.
chrit belgha sfra l l3id.
“I bought a yellow babouche for Eid.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “belgha” but also “blgha”, “balgha”, “bal8a” and “blogha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “belgha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “babouche, indoor slipper”; “slipper, house shoe”: belgha in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “babouche, traditional leather slipper”: belgha in Tunisian.