borkan بركان
Moroccan Darija · noun
“borkan” (بركان) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning volcano.
Meanings
- volcano
Usage
The noun borkan, volcano, comes from Standard Arabic. It is used mostly in an informative register: TV news, school, documentaries. In conversation it appears mainly figuratively, to describe a person about to explode with anger. Note: the same Arabic spelling also corresponds to Berkane, a city in the Oriental region. It is then pronounced with an e and also refers to the city's football club. In arabizi, borkan means the volcano, while berkane almost always refers to the city.
Example
شفت فالأخبار بركان طرطق
chft f lakhbar borkan TerTe9
“I saw on the news that a volcano erupted.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “borkan” but also “borkane”, “bourkan”, “brkan”, “berkane” and “berkan”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “borkan” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “volcano”; “outburst of anger or emotion (figurative)”: borkane in Tunisian.