maw9i3 موقع

Moroccan Darija · noun

“maw9i3” (موقع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning site, place, location.

Meanings

1. site, place, location
2. website
3. construction site

Usage

Maw9i3 is a Standard Arabic word, well integrated into Moroccan speech. It is used for a location, a workplace or a construction site ("khddam f maw9i3"). Today it mainly means a website: "maw9i3 dyal chi charika". In casual conversation, many people also say "site" in French. The plural is mawa9i3. Warning: in written messages, a string like "mawqe3 walo" often transcribes "ma w9e3 walo" ("nothing happened"), from the verb w9e3. It is not the noun maw9i3.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “maw9i3” but also “maw9e3”, “mawqi3” and “mawki3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “maw9i3” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “website”; “location, place”: mawqi3 in Algerian.