mo9awala مقاولة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mo9awala” (مقاولة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning company, business.
Meanings
- company, business
Usage
Mo9awala refers to a company, especially a small or medium-sized one. It is very common in Moroccan economic and administrative vocabulary: "mo9awala sghira" (small business), "mo9awala jdida" (new company), "dir mo9awala" (to start a company). It often comes up in connection with support schemes, financing and start-up procedures. In conversation, people also say charika (company) or, for a large organization, chi société in the French style. The register is neutral. The plural is mo9awalat.
Example
كولا مقاولة جديدة كاتاخد واحد دعم
koula mo9awala jdida kata5oud wa7ed de3m
“Every new company gets some support.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mo9awala” but also “moqawala”, “m9awla”, “mo9awla” and “mu9awala”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.