mohandis مهندس
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mohandis” (مهندس) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning engineer.
Meanings
- engineer
Usage
Mohendis means a person who has graduated from an engineering school, in any field. The feminine is mohendisa and the plural mohendisin. It is a socially prestigious title: families readily say wldi mohendis ("my son is an engineer"). The specialty is given with f: mohendis f l'informatique, mohendis f lbni. For graduating, you say tkherrej mohendis ("he came out an engineer"). The word comes from standard Arabic and is pronounced fairly similarly, with a short o or ou in the first syllable. In everyday speech you also often hear the French word "ingénieur", especially in conversations mixed with French.
Example
واش نتا مهندس?
wach nta mohandis?
“Are you an engineer?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mohandis” but also “mohendis”, “mo8ndis”, “mou8ndis”, “mhendis” and “mohndis”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “mohandis” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “engineer”; “architect (mhandes mi3mari)”: mhandes in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “engineer”: mohandes in Tunisian.