chari3 شارع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chari3” (شارع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning street, avenue.
Meanings
- street, avenue
- the street, outside
Usage
Chari3 means a street, especially a wide, busy road, an avenue or a boulevard. It appears in official street names: chari3 Mohammed l-Khamis. For a small neighbourhood street, zen9a is more usual, and derb for an alley or a medina quarter. With the article it is chchari3, and the plural is chawari3. It is also heard figuratively for "the street", the public space, as in wlad chchari3, "street children". The word comes from Standard Arabic but is common in the spoken language.
Example
المرا شريفة كان خاص شي واحد يعاونها بشد تقطع شارع
lmra charfa kan 5ass chi wa7d y3awnha bchad t9te3 chari3
“The old lady needed someone to help her cross the street.”
Forms
| plural | chawari3 |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chari3” but also “chare3” and “chaari3”. 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.
Type “chari3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “street, avenue”; “the street (social milieu)”: chare3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “street, avenue”; “the street, public space”: chera3 in Tunisian.