mchrou3 مشروع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mchrou3” (مشروع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning project.
Meanings
- project
- business, small venture
Usage
Mechrou3 is very common. It means a project in general, and often a small business that someone starts on their own. "Dir mechrou3 dyalk" thus means "start your own business", a common piece of advice for young people. The word combines with the verbs dar/dir (to do, to launch), bda (to start) and 3ndi (to have). The plural is machari3, common for large public works. As an adjective, mechrou3 also means "legitimate, lawful" in a more formal register, for example in "7a9 mechrou3", a legitimate right. Context resolves the ambiguity.
Example
دير مشروع ديالك
dir mechrou3 dyalk
“Start your own project.”
Forms
| plural | machari3 |
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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 “mchrou3” but also “machrou3”, “mechrou3”, “mchro3” and “mashrou3”. 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 “mchrou3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “project, business venture”; “promising person (figurative)”: machrou3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “project”; “business venture, small business”: machrou3 in Tunisian.