kamio كاميو
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kamio” (كاميو) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning truck, lorry.
Meanings
- truck, lorry
Usage
Kamio is an adapted loanword from French "camion", in common use throughout Morocco. It refers to a goods-carrying truck of any size. With the article, you say l-kamio, and the usual plural is kamiouat. The driver is called chifour dial l-kamio or kamiounji. For a small van, you more often hear "triporteur" or "honda", after a widespread model. The word is ordinary in register and carries no particular colloquial nuance.
Example
الكاميو واقف قدام الدار
lkamio wa9ef 9ddam dar
“The truck is parked in front of the house.”
Forms
| plural | kamyowat |
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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 “kamio” but also “camio”, “kamyo” and “kamiou”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kamio” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “truck, lorry”: kamyou in Algerian.