ghle9 غلق
Moroccan Darija · verb
“ghle9” (غلق) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to close (door, shop).
Meanings
- to close (door, shop)
- to lock, to bolt
Usage
Ghleq means "to close". It is used for a door, a window, a shop or an account: ghleq l-bab, "close the door". In everyday use it competes with sedd, which is more frequent in many regions for a door or a tap. Ghleq often keeps a nuance of closing completely or locking. The participle meghluq means "closed": l-ḥanut meghluqa, "the shop is closed". The conjugation is regular: ghleqt, yeghleq, ghleq in the imperative.
Example
غلق الباب ملي تخرج
ghle9 lbab mli tkhrej
“Close the door when you go out.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghle9” but also “ghl9”, “ghleq”, “ghla9” and “rle9”. 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 “ghle9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to close (door, shop)”; “to lock, bolt”: ghle9 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “closure (of a place, a border)”; “shutdown, lockdown”: ghlaq in Tunisian.