chifour شيفور
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chifour” (شيفور) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning chauffeur, professional driver.
Meanings
- chauffeur, professional driver
Usage
Chifour comes from French "chauffeur" and refers to a person whose job is driving: taxi, bus, truck or private car. The vehicle is often specified with dyal: chifour dyal taxi, chifour dyal kar. The plural is chifourat. For an ordinary motorist driving their own car, lli sayeq is used instead. The word belongs to the everyday register and is heard throughout Morocco. It should not be taken to mean a heating appliance. In darija, chifour refers only to the person who drives.
Example
أنا شيفور ديال تاكسي
ana chifour dyal Taxi
“I'm a taxi driver.”
Forms
| feminine | chifora |
|---|---|
| plural | chwafr |
| feminine plural | chiforat |
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 “chifour” but also “chifor”, “chiffor”, “shifour” and “chiffour”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.