la9ab لقب
Moroccan Darija · noun
“la9ab” (لقب) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning title (sports, honorific).
Meanings
- title (sports, honorific)
- nickname
Usage
La9ab is a word of Standard Arabic origin, very common in the language of football and sport: rbe7 l-la9ab "to win the title", l-la9ab l-ifri9i "the African title". It also refers to an honorific title or a nickname given to someone. For a casual nickname, smiya or ki 3iytou lih ("what they call him") is more common. For the family name, Moroccan administrative usage tends to say l-ism l-3a'ili, and everyday language says kniya. La9ab therefore does not correspond exactly to "surname".
Example
الوداد ربحات اللقب هاد العام
lwidad rb7at l-la9ab had l3am
“Wydad won the title this year.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “la9ab” but also “laqab”, “l9ab” and “lagab”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “la9ab” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “title (sports, honorary)”; “family name”: l9ab in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “surname”; “title (sports, honorific)”: la9ab in Tunisian.