mawhoub موهوب

Moroccan Darija · adjective

“mawhoub” (موهوب) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning gifted, talented.

Meanings

1. gifted, talented

Usage

Mawhoub is the adjective corresponding to mawhiba. It comes from Standard Arabic but is common in darija for describing an artist, an athlete or a brilliant student. It agrees in gender and number: mawhouba in the feminine, mawhoubin in the plural. You specify the field with f: mawhoub f lkora, "gifted at football". It is readily intensified with bzzaf or with a phrase like men sghru, "since he was little". The register is neutral. In casual conversation, you also hear m3ellem or 3endu yed for a practical talent.

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mawhoub” but also “mohoub”, “mo8oub”, “mow8oub”, “mawhob” and “mow8ob”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.

Type “mawhoub” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “talented, gifted”: mawhoub in Algerian.