d9i9 دقيق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“d9i9” (دقيق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning flour.
Meanings
- flour
- precise, meticulous; fine
Usage
In everyday language, dqiq mainly means flour. Depending on the region, it is also pronounced dgig. The proverb zid lma zid dqiq, "more water, more flour", is said of a problem that leads to another. Dqiq is also an adjective, "precise" or "meticulous", in a more formal register: had lbernamej dqiq, "this program is precise". Watch the spelling: dqayq, written with the same Arabic letters, is the plural of dqiqa and means "minutes". Only context distinguishes them in writing.
Example
زيد الما زيد دقيق
zid lma zid d9i9
“The more water, the more flour.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “d9i9” but also “dqiq”, “dgig”, “d9ii9”, “dqi9” and “dqayq”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “d9i9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “precise, exact”; “meticulous, painstaking”: dqiq in Tunisian.