malal ملل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“malal” (ملل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning boredom, weariness.
Meanings
- boredom, weariness
Usage
The noun lmalal means boredom or weariness. It is used mainly in phrasings where boredom is the subject acting on the person: 9tlni lmalal, "boredom is killing me", or dkhel liya lmalal. In conversation, the verb mell, "to be bored, to be fed up", is more frequent than the noun: mellit, "I'm bored, I'm fed up". The spelling ملل also appears in the name of the city of Beni Mellal, which should not be confused with this word.
Example
قتلني الملل فهاد الدار
9tlni lmalal f had ddar
“I'm bored to death in this house.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, it is written “malal”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.