mousi9i موسيقي
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mousi9i” (موسيقي) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning musician.
Meanings
- musician
- musical
Usage
Mousi9i first means a musician, for example in mousi9i dyal jazz, "jazz musician". The feminine is mousi9iya, the plural mousi9iyin. As an adjective, it means "musical": alat mousi9iya, "musical instrument", or mahrajan mousi9i, "music festival". The register is rather refined. In everyday speech, musicians are often referred to by their instrument or by words like lfnnan or lchikh in popular genres. Do not confuse this word with mousi9a, the word for music itself.
Example
من غير هادشي أنا موسيقي ديال جاز
mn ghir hadchi ana mosi9i dyal jazz
“Apart from that, I'm a jazz musician.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mousi9i” but also “mosi9i”, “musiqi”, “moussi9i” and “mousiqi”. 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.