dou9 دوق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“dou9” (دوق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning taste (aesthetic sense).
Meanings
- taste (aesthetic sense)
- taste, flavour
- taste it! (imperative)
Usage
Dou9 mainly refers to taste in the sense of aesthetic judgement: 3ndek dou9 zwin, "you have good taste", or ma3ndoch dou9, "he has no taste", about clothes, decor or music. The word can also refer to the flavour of a dish, but people more often say lmadaq or ben. The same form is the imperative of the verb da9 / ydu9, "to taste": dou9 had tajine, "taste this tajine". Only context distinguishes the noun from the verb.
Example
عندك دوق زوين
3endek daw9 zwin
“You have good taste.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dou9” but also “do9”, “daw9”, “douq”, “dou9e” and “do99”. 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.