mo7adara محاضرة

Moroccan Darija · noun

“mo7adara” (محاضرة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning lecture (university).

Meanings

1. lecture (university)
2. public talk, address

Usage

Mo7adara means above all a lecture at university, as opposed to tutorials. Students use it all the time, alongside the French "cours" or "amphi". The word also means a public talk given by a speaker, where the French "conférence" is often preferred. The plural is mo7adarat. Typical constructions are 3ndi mo7adara ("I have a lecture") and 7der l-mo7adara ("attend the lecture"). The term is borrowed from Standard Arabic but is well integrated into student speech. It is not used for a class in middle or high school, where people say "cours" or derss instead.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mo7adara” but also “mou7adara”, “mohadara” and “m7adra”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.

Type “mo7adara” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “lecture, talk”; “sermon, moral lecture”: mo7adhra in Tunisian.

How to say “lecture” in Moroccan and Tunisian