mard مرض
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mard” (مرض) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning illness, disease.
Meanings
- illness, disease
- being sick
Usage
Mrd (often with the article: lmrd) is the common word for illness, in all registers. One says jah lmrd or tah f lmrd for "to fall ill". A sick person is mrid (feminine mrida, plural mrad). Mrd, the illness, is easily confused with mrid, the sick person: in online writing, the spelling mrad often refers to sick people. The corresponding verb is mrd, "to fall ill". The noun appears in administrative and medical expressions such as mrd mozmin (chronic illness).
Example
هاد المرض كيتعدى بالزربة
had lmrd kayt3dda bzzerba
“This disease spreads quickly.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mard” but also “mrd”, “marad” and “merd”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mard” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “illness, disease”; “obsession, bad habit (figurative)”: mard in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “illness, disease”; “ailment, chronic condition”: mardh in Tunisian.