majzara مجزرة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“majzara” (مجزرة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning massacre, slaughter.
Meanings
- massacre, slaughter
- disaster, carnage (figurative)
Usage
Majzara first means a massacre, a mass killing. It is heard in the news and in discussions about current events. The word is borrowed from the standard register but is in common use. In a figurative, informal sense, it is used for a disastrous result: a crushing sports defeat, a botched haircut, a catastrophic exam. Example construction: dar majzara, "he caused carnage". The plural is majazir. The pronunciation varies between majzara and mejzara.
Example
داك الماتش كان مجزرة
dak lmatch kan majzara
“That match was a massacre.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “majzara” but also “mejzara”, “mjzara”, “majzra” and “mjazra”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.