monaddama منظمة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“monaddama” (منظمة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning organization, body.
Meanings
- organization, body
- association, NGO
Usage
A formal-register word, taken from Standard Arabic. It is heard mainly about institutions and in the media, for example lmonaDDama dial ssi77a, the health organization, or monaDDama dawliya, an international organization. In everyday conversation, jam3iya is used instead for a local association. Many speakers also simply say l'organisation or ONG in French. The plural is monaDDamat. Note: this word does not mean "organization" in the sense of tidying up or planning. For that sense, tanDim or phrases with neDDem are used.
Example
خدامة ف واحد المنظمة كاتعاون الدراري الصغار
khddama f wa7ed lmonaDDama katt3awn ddrari sghar
“She works in an organization that helps young children.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “monaddama” but also “monadama”, “mounaddama” and “munaddama”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “monaddama” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “organization, body”; “association, structured group”: monadama in Algerian.