mawdo3 موضوع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mawdo3” (موضوع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning subject, topic.
Meanings
- subject, topic
- matter, affair
Usage
Mawdu3 refers to the subject of a discussion, a text or a video, and more broadly to an ongoing matter. It is often heard in "chno lmawdu3?", meaning "what is it about?", or in "bdl lmawdu3", meaning "change the subject". At school, it also refers to an exam or essay topic. In conversation, it can refer to a delicate situation that is left unnamed: "fhmti lmawdu3?", that is, "do you understand what's going on?". The plural is mawadi3.
Example
موضوع زوين هادا
mawdo3 zwin hada
“This is a nice subject.”
Forms
| plural | mawaDi3 |
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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 “mawdo3” but also “mawdou3”, “mowdo3”, “mwdo3”, “modo3” and “mowdou3”. 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.
Type “mawdo3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “topic, theme”; “matter, affair”: mawdou3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “subject, topic”; “matter, affair in question”: mawdhou3 in Tunisian.