mosta9bal مستقبل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mosta9bal” (مستقبل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning future.
Meanings
- future
- prospects (career, personal)
Usage
Mostaqbal is the usual word for the future, often with the article: l-mostaqbal. It comes up a lot when talking about studies, work and marriage. With a possessive pronoun, it refers to a person's future situation: mostaqbali, my future, or mostaqbalek, your future. For example, bni mostaqbalek, build your future. Fe l-mostaqbal corresponds to "in the future" or "later". The expression ma 3ndo mostaqbal, "he has no future", is said of a person as well as of a project. In writing, the q is often written 9.
Example
دائما تفكر تقرا الماضي باش تفهم الحاضر ول مستقبل
da2iman tfakr te9ra l madi bach tefham l7adir oul mousta9bal
“Always think about studying the past to understand the present and the future.”
Forms
| plural | most9balat |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mosta9bal” but also “mostaqbal”, “most9bal”, “mousta9bal” and “mostqbal”. 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.
Type “mosta9bal” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “future”; “future (time to come)”: mosta9bel in Tunisian.