marchi مارشي
Moroccan Darija · noun
“marchi” (مارشي) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning market (place of sale).
Meanings
- market (place of sale)
- supermarket (in "super marchi")
Usage
A loanword fully integrated from French "marché", pronounced marchi. It refers to a covered or neighbourhood urban market where you buy vegetables, meat and fish. It is used with the article: lmarchi. It differs from suq, which is more traditional, often weekly and rural. The compound "super marchi" means supermarket. "Marchi dyal lbal" or "joutia" mean the flea market.
Example
مشا ل مارشي ديال لبال
mcha l marchi dyal lbal
“He went to the flea market.”
Forms
| plural | marchiat |
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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 “marchi” but also “marché”, “marche” and “marshi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “marchi” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “market (place to buy)”; “groceries, shopping”: marchi in Tunisian.