mousi9a موسيقا
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mousi9a” (موسيقا) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning music.
Meanings
- music
Usage
Mousi9a is the usual word for music in general. It is feminine: lmousi9a zwina, "the music is beautiful". People say tleq lmousi9a or sheghel lmousi9a for "put the music on", and kaysme3 lmousi9a for "he listens to music". The complement is often built with dyal: alat dyal mousi9a, "musical instruments". To refer to the songs themselves, l'ghna or lghnawi are used instead. The Arabic spelling varies between a final alif and a final alif maqsura, with no difference in pronunciation. In arabizi, the digit 9 stands for the q sound.
Example
دخلت لمعهد ديال موسيقا
dkhlt l ma3had dial mosi9a
“I joined a music institute.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mousi9a” but also “mosi9a”, “musiqa”, “moussi9a”, “mosiqa” and “mousiqa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find موسيقا and موسيقى, all the same word.
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 “mousi9a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
The same word also exists in Tunisian Derja, written موسيقى, where it means “music”: mousi9a in Tunisian.