dyalhom ديالهوم
Moroccan Darija · pronoun
“dyalhom” (ديالهوم) is a pronoun in Moroccan Darija meaning their.
Meanings
- their
- theirs
Usage
Dyalhom combines dyal and the suffix -hom ("they, them"). It expresses possession by a group, whether masculine, feminine or mixed. It is placed after the definite noun: ddar dyalhom, "their house". Used on its own as a predicate, it means "theirs": hadchi dyalhom, "it's theirs". It stays invariable whatever the gender and number of the thing possessed. Some speakers use dyawlhom before a plural noun, but dyalhom covers all cases in everyday usage.
Example
كايخرسّو لقدرة فجردة ديالهوم
kay5erssou l5edra fjarda dialhom
“They are planting vegetables in their garden.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dyalhom” but also “dialhom”, “dyalhoum”, “dial8om” and “dialhoum”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.