komisariya كميسارية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“komisariya” (كميسارية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning police station.
Meanings
- police station
Usage
The word komisariya is borrowed from French "commissariat" and adapted to Moroccan pronunciation. It is very common in spoken language and is almost always used with the article: lkomisariya. It is heard in expressions like mcha l lkomisariya ("he went to the police station") or ddawh l lkomisariya ("they took him to the police station"). It belongs to the everyday register; the administrative equivalent in Standard Arabic is less used in speech. Its Latin spelling varies a lot online, with one or two s's and an ending in -iya, -ia or -ya.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “komisariya” but also “komissariya”, “kumisariya” and “komisaria”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.