klyan كليان

Moroccan Darija · noun

“klyan” (كليان) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning client, customer.

Meanings

1. client, customer
2. clientele

Usage

Klyan is an adapted borrowing from French "client", very common in trade and services. One says l-klyan (the client) and klyana (a female client). The most common plural is klyana; the word is also used in a collective sense, as here ("clients, clientele"). It is heard in phrases like jab l-klyan (to attract clients) or 3endu bezzaf d l-klyan (he has a lot of clients). The word is in the ordinary register. The Arabic term zbun also exists and is more traditional.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “klyan” but also “kliyan”, “klian”, “clian” and “kliyane”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “klyan” on the Arabic keyboard