joghrafi جغرافي

Moroccan Darija · adjective

“joghrafi” (جغرافي) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning geographical.

Meanings

1. geographical

Usage

Joghrafi is a learned adjective, taken from standard Arabic. It is used mainly in school, administrative or journalistic contexts: lmawqi3 joghrafi (the geographical location), lkharita joghrafiya (the geographical map). The feminine is joghrafiya, and in speech it merges with the noun joghrafia, "geography". In ordinary conversation, the adjective is often avoided and the sentence is phrased differently. The word is understood everywhere.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “joghrafi” but also “jughrafi” and “joghrafy”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “joghrafi” on the Arabic keyboard