mol ddjaj مول الدجاج
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mol ddjaj” (مول الدجاج) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning poultry seller, poulterer.
Meanings
- poultry seller, poulterer
- chicken farmer
Usage
Mol ddjaj means the shopkeeper who sells chickens, often live and slaughtered on the spot at the customer's request, in a small neighborhood shop or at the souk. The construction mol + noun ("the master of, the one with") is very productive in darija for naming a trade or a shopkeeper after what they sell. One commonly says "mchit 3nd mol ddjaj" (I went to the poultry seller's). The word ddjaj is a collective: it means chickens in general. The plural of the trade name is mwalin ddjaj.
Example
شريت جوج دجاجات عند مول الدجاج.
chrit jouj djajat 3nd mol ddjaj.
“I bought two chickens from the poultry seller.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mol ddjaj” but also “moul djaj”, “mol djaj” and “moul ddjaj”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.