mowwel موّل
Moroccan Darija · verb
“mowwel” (موّل) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to finance, to fund.
Meanings
- to finance, to fund
Usage
Mowwel means "to finance". This verb comes from Standard Arabic and is used in a rather formal or technical register: projects, associations, banks. The corresponding noun is tamwil, financing. It takes a direct object: "mowwel lmachrou3". Important pitfall: without the doubled consonant, the word moul is something else entirely. It is a very common noun meaning "owner, the one who has or holds": moul lhanout (the grocer), moul ddar (the master of the house). Most sentences found online actually contain this moul, not the verb mowwel.
Example
شكون اللي موّل هاد المشروع؟
chkoun lli mowwel had lmachrou3?
“Who financed this project?”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanmowwel | mowwelt | |
| nta (you, m.) | katmowwel | mowwelti | mowwel |
| nti (you, f.) | katmowwli | mowwelti | mowwli |
| howa (he) | kaymowwel | mowwel | |
| hiya (she) | katmowwel | mowwlat | |
| 7na (we) | kanmowwlo | mowwlna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katmowwlo | mowwlto | mowwlo |
| homa (they) | kaymowwlo | mowwlo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mowwel” but also “mawwel”, “mwwel”, “mowel”, “mmwel” and “mwwl”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mowwel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “owner, boss of”; “the one with, the one who has…”: moul in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “owner, master of something”; “one who has or carries something”: moul in Tunisian.