malia مالية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“malia” (مالية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning finance, the financial sphere.
Meanings
- finance, the financial sphere
- Ministry of Finance
Usage
The word malia, almost always with the article (lmalia), belongs to the administrative and journalistic register. It is used mostly to talk about public finances, the ministry (wizarat lmalia, or simply lmalia) or a company's budget. In conversation, it appears mainly in fixed expressions such as qanun lmalia (finance law). For everyday talk about money, Moroccans say flouss instead. Do not confuse it with mali, "mine", or with the adjective mali, "financial". The word stays close to Standard Arabic, but it is very common in Morocco in the media and in administration.
Example
خدام فالمالية من شحال هادي
khddam f lmalia men ch7al hadi
“He has worked in Finance for a long time.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “malia” but also “maliya” and “maliyya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.