journal جورنال
Moroccan Darija · noun
“journal” (جورنال) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning newspaper, daily.
Meanings
- newspaper, daily
Usage
Journal is a loanword from French, fully integrated into darija and very common. It takes the Arabic article: ljournal. It refers to the paper newspaper you buy at the kiosk: chrit ljournal (I bought the newspaper). Many speakers pronounce it jornan, with a final n, an equally widespread variant. For the news on television, people say lakhbar instead. To specify the language or the date, use b or dyal: journal bl3rbiya (a newspaper in Arabic), journal dyal lbareh (yesterday's newspaper). The word stays invariable in most uses.
Example
عفاك بغيت جورنال بالعربية
3afak bghit journal bl3rbiya
“Please, I'd like a newspaper in Arabic.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “journal” but also “jornal” and “jurnal”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.