mitin ميتين
Moroccan Darija · numeral
“mitin” (ميتين) is a numeral in Moroccan Darija meaning two hundred.
Meanings
- two hundred
Usage
Mitin means "two hundred". It is a dual form derived from myya: one does not say "juj myya". The noun that follows stays in the singular: mitin derhem, mitin dollar. It is mostly met with prices and sums of money: "kiswa mitin derhem", "it costs two hundred dirhams". For the following hundreds, the bound form before myya is used: tlt myya, rb3 myya, and so on. Mitin w khamsin means "two hundred and fifty".
Example
هاد توني كيسوى ميتين الدرهم
had touni kiswa miytin derham
“This T-shirt costs two hundred dirhams.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mitin” but also “miytin”, “mytin”, “myatin” and “mitine”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mitin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “two hundred”; “dead (plural of mayet)”: mitin in Algerian.