kolliya كلّية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kolliya” (كلّية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning faculty, university.
Meanings
- faculty, university
Usage
Kolliya refers to a university faculty. In everyday use it is equivalent to French "la fac": kan9ra f l-kolliya (I'm at uni). It is also used as the first term of a construct to name a specific faculty: kolliyat l-7o9ou9 (law faculty). The word comes from Standard Arabic but is fully integrated into darija. Many people also say la fac, in the French way. Beware of a false friend: kolliya does not correspond to French "collège", which is l-i3dadi.
Example
كنقرا فل كلية
kan9ra fel kolliya
“I'm studying at uni.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kolliya” but also “kolya”, “kollia”, “koliya” and “kulliya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kolliya” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “university faculty”; “university, higher education”: kolliya in Tunisian.