fari9 فريق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“fari9” (فريق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning team (sport, work).
Meanings
- team (sport, work)
- group of people
Usage
Fari9 means a team, whether sports or professional. It is often found in fari9 l3amal ("the work team", "the staff") and in the expression khddem ka fari9 ("to work as a team"). For football, the usual word is rather equipe or l'kipa, borrowed from French; fari9 sounds a bit more formal and appears a lot in the media and in sports commentary. The plural is fira9 or fer9an. For the possessive, dyal is commonly used: l-fari9 dyalna ("our team").
Example
الهدف هوا نعلمك العمل ك فريق
l8adaf 8owa n3llmk l3amal ka fari9
“The goal is to teach you to work as a team.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fari9” but also “farik”, “fariq” and “far9”. 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 “fari9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “team (sports)”; “work team, crew”: fari9 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “sports team”; “group of people working together”: fari9 in Tunisian.