gazon ڭازون
Moroccan Darija · noun
“gazon” (ڭازون) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning lawn, grass.
Meanings
- lawn, grass
- football pitch turf
Usage
Gazon is a loanword from French, in common use for a lawn in a garden, a park or a sports ground. It is almost always used with the article: lgazon. One says tiran dyal lgazon for a grass pitch, as opposed to a dirt pitch, and gazon synthétique, pronounced the French way, for artificial turf. For wild grass, rbi3 is preferred. Everyday register.
Example
التيران ديال الحومة ولّا فيه الڭازون
tiran dyal l7oma wella fih lgazon
“The neighbourhood pitch now has grass.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “gazon” but also “gazoun”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.