ma9adir مقادير
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ma9adir” (مقادير) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning ingredients and quantities of a recipe.
Meanings
- ingredients and quantities of a recipe
- proportions, amounts
Usage
Lmqadir is the word heard on cooking shows and read in online recipes. It refers to the list of ingredients with their quantities, the equivalent of "you will need". It is found mostly at the head of a recipe: "lmqadir: kas dyal ddqi9, juj bidat…". The word is almost always plural. It stresses the amounts more than the products themselves: getting lmqadir wrong means getting the proportions wrong. At home, people also often say "dakchi lli khassna" (what we need).
Example
عطيني المقادير ديال الحريرة
3tini lmqadir dyal l7rira
“Give me the ingredients for the harira.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ma9adir” but also “maqadir”, “mqadir” and “m9adir”. 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.