daraja درجة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“daraja” (درجة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning degree (temperature).
Meanings
- degree (temperature)
- level, rank
- step, grade
Usage
Daraja (often pronounced darja or drja) is used mainly for temperature, after a number: l-7rara wselt l-40 daraja (it's forty degrees). The plural is darajat. Figuratively, the word means a level or rank, as in b daraja kbira (to a high degree, enormously) or daraja l-loula (first class, first rank). It belongs to an everyday register, slightly more formal than the rest of daily vocabulary, because it comes from Standard Arabic. It is nonetheless perfectly usual in speech.
Example
فوق من 10 درجة
foq mn 3achra daraja
“Above ten degrees.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “daraja” but also “darja”, “drja” and “daraje”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “daraja” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “degree (temperature, angle)”; “level, rank, quality”: daraja in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “degree (temperature, angle)”; “class (train, plane)”: darja in Tunisian.