mout موت
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mout” (موت) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning death.
Meanings
- death
- passing (of someone)
Usage
Mout means death in general, as a concept. It also means the death of a specific person, with a complement: mout lwalida, "the death of the mother". It appears in many resigned or religious formulas, for example koulna ghadi nmoutou, "we will all die". Note: the same written form can be read as the verb "to die" in the imperfect (nmout, "I die", ymout, "he dies"). Context tells them apart. To talk about a way of dying, mouta is used instead. The word belongs to all registers.
Example
كاينة غير موت وحدة
kayna ghir mout we7da
“There is only one death.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mout” but also “mawt”, “maout” and “mot”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mout” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “death, passing”: mout in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “death, passing”: mout in Tunisian.