majliss مجلس
Moroccan Darija · noun
“majliss” (مجلس) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning council, assembly.
Meanings
- council, assembly
- sitting room, gathering place
Usage
Majliss refers to a body that deliberates: the municipal council (majliss jama3i), parliament (majliss nnouwab) or a school's disciplinary board (majliss ta2dibi). It belongs to administrative and political vocabulary and is very common in the media and at school. In a more traditional usage, it also means a reception room, the place where people receive guests and sit together. The plural is majaliss. Watch out: in writing, the spelling mjliss can be confused with other words, such as mjellej.
Example
راه مجلس تأديبي
rah majliss t2dibi
“It's a disciplinary council.”
Forms
| plural | majalis |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “majliss” but also “majlis”, “mjliss”, “mjlis” and “majlisse”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “majliss” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “council, assembly (institution)”; “parliament”: majless in Tunisian.