mo3eddal معدّل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mo3eddal” (معدّل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning average (school grade).
Meanings
- average (school grade)
- average, mean rate
Usage
Mo3eddal is used mainly in school and university contexts: a student's overall average, the baccalaureate average, or the cutoff required to get into a school. People say "mo3eddal dyali" (my average) or "jbt mo3eddal mzyan" (I got a good average). In practice the word is a noun, even though some sources classify it as an adjective. It comes from Standard Arabic but is common among all Moroccans who have been to school. Many speakers also use the French word "moyenne" directly.
Example
راه معدل ديالك تايح هاد العام
rah mo3eddal dialek tay7 had l3am
“Your average dropped this year.”
Forms
| plural | mo3ddalat |
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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 “mo3eddal” but also “mo3ddal”, “mou3addal” and “m3eddel”. 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 “mo3eddal” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “grade average”; “average, mean rate”: mo3adal in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “average (school grade)”; “average, average rate”: m3addel in Tunisian.