mender منظر

Moroccan Darija · noun

“mender” (منظر) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning view, scenery.

Meanings

1. view, scenery
2. scene, sight
3. look, appearance

Usage

This spelling follows Standard Arabic for a word pronounced menDer in Morocco, with an emphatic ḍ. It first means a beautiful landscape or view, but also a scene one witnesses, often with a qualifier: menDer zwin, menDer 7chouma. It can finally mean the appearance of someone or something, as in lmenDer dialo machi hwa hadak, "his appearance doesn't match". The plural is mnaDer. It is very often used after chouf or with the exclamation ch7al zwin.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mender” but also “mnder”, “mandar”, “mendar” and “mndr”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “mender” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “view, scenery”; “sight, scene”: mandhar in Tunisian.