message ميساج
Moroccan Darija · noun
“message” (ميساج) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning message, text message.
Meanings
- message, text message
- message left for someone
Usage
Misaj is a loanword from French "message", well integrated into darija and very common. It mainly means a text message or a message sent through a messaging app. The most frequent verb is sifet (to send): nsifet lik misaj. You also say khalla lih misaj for a message left for someone. The plural is misajat. Online, many people write it with the French spelling "message", but the pronunciation stays misaj.
Example
خليني نصيفت ليه ميساج
khlini nsift lih message
“Let me send him a message.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “message” but also “misaj”, “missaj”, “msaj” and “messaj”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “message” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “message (text, written message)”; “message, idea conveyed”: missage in Algerian.