ghorfa غرفة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ghorfa” (غرفة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning room (hotel, hospital).
Meanings
- room (hotel, hospital)
- chamber (official body)
Usage
Ghorfa is the rather formal or administrative word for "room". In daily life, people almost always say bit for a room in the house: bit nnaε is used for the bedroom. Ghorfa appears mostly in hotels, in hospitals, in announcements or at reception, as in ghorfa l-wahed for a single room. It is also found in institutional vocabulary, for example for a chamber of commerce. Someone who says ghorfa for their own room at home will be understood, but will sound a bit formal.
Example
بغيتي غرفة مزدوجة؟
bghiti ghorfa mozdawaja?
“Do you want a double room?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghorfa” but also “ghurfa”, “ghourfa” and “rorfa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.