majal مجال
Moroccan Darija · noun
“majal” (مجال) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning field, area of activity.
Meanings
- field, area of activity
- scope, room
Usage
Majal comes from Standard Arabic and is commonly used to talk about a professional sector or field of activity: majal l'informatique, dkhel l'majal dyal…, "to go into the field of…". It is a word of a rather educated register, frequent in discussions about work or studies. It is also used in the expression ma kaynch majal, "there is no way" or "there is no room for that". The plural is majalat. It is not a word of the most common colloquial speech.
Example
علاش مابغيتيش تدخل مجال التدريب
3lach mabghitich t d5el majal tedrib
“Why don't you want to go into the field of training?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “majal” but also “majall” and “mjal”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “majal” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “field, sector”; “scope, room”: majal in Algerian.