jomhour جمهور
Moroccan Darija · noun
“jomhour” (جمهور) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning audience, spectators.
Meanings
- audience, spectators
- supporters, fans
Usage
Jomhour refers to the audience at a show, a concert or a match. It is used very often in football to mean the supporters: ljomhour dial Raja, "Raja's supporters". The word comes from standard Arabic but is fully part of everyday speech. You find it in sports commentary, TV programmes and on social media. As a collective noun, it readily takes a plural agreement: ljomhour fer7o, "the crowd rejoiced". For the most devoted fans, you also hear lmo7ibbin or the French term "ultras".
Example
عندك فرصة دابا تفرح جمهور كامل
3endek forssa daba tfere7 jomhor kamel
“You now have the chance to make a whole audience happy.”
Forms
| plural | jama8ir |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jomhour” but also “jomhor”, “jm8or”, “jom8our” and “jmhor”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “jomhour” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “audience, public (viewers, followers)”; “fans of a team”: jomhour in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “audience, spectators”; “supporters (of a club)”: jomhour in Tunisian.