madkhal مدخل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“madkhal” (مدخل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning entrance of a place, access.
Meanings
- entrance of a place, access
- bringing in (participle of dekhkhel)
Usage
The noun madkhal refers to the entrance of a building, a neighborhood or a city: lmadkhal dyal lmdina. It belongs to a rather formal register, close to Standard Arabic, and is often seen on signs. In everyday conversation, people more readily say lbab or dkhla. The same spelling is also read as mdekhkhel, the participle of the verb dekhkhel ("to bring in"): mdekhkhel ttomobil l garage. Do not confuse it with medkhoul, which means "income". In arabizi, the two words are often written the same way.
Example
فين كاين المدخل ديال السبيطار؟
fin kayn lmadkhal dyal sbitar?
“Where is the hospital entrance?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “madkhal” but also “mdkhl”, “mdkhal”, “medkhal” and “madkhol”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “madkhal” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “entrance, access to a place”; “brought in, involved”: mad5el in Tunisian.