ijra2 إجراء
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ijra2” (إجراء) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning procedure, formality.
Meanings
- procedure, formality
- measure taken
Usage
Ijra2 comes from Standard Arabic and belongs to the administrative register. In darija it is used mostly in the plural, l2ijra2at or lijra2at, to talk about administrative formalities: papers, file, passport, visa. For example, dar l2ijra2at, "to go through the formalities". The word also means a measure taken by an authority. In the singular it is rarer and sounds more formal. In everyday life, many people simply say lwraq ("the papers") to mean the same thing, or use the French "procédure". Ijra2 is therefore not colloquial at all.
Example
باقي ما كمّلتش الإجراءات ديال الباسبور
ba9i ma kemmeltch l2ijra2at dyal lpasspor
“I haven't finished the passport formalities yet.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ijra2” but also “2ijra2”, “ijraa” and “ijra2at”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop.