daroura ضرورة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“daroura” (ضرورة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning necessity, pressing need.
Meanings
- necessity, pressing need
- emergency, force majeure
Usage
Daroura means "necessity". The word comes from Standard Arabic and belongs to a rather formal register, but a few expressions are very common. Bi d-daroura or b d-daroura means "necessarily, inevitably". L-ma kayna daroura, more simply ma kayna ḥetta daroura, translates as "it isn't necessary". It is also used to refer to a case of force majeure: 3la wed d-daroura, "out of necessity". In spontaneous speech, the adjective darouri or the verb khass, "must, need", are more frequent than the noun.
Example
ما كاينة حتى ضرورة تجي
ma kayna hta daroura tji
“There's no need for you to come.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “daroura” but also “darora”, “darura” and “dharoura”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.