ms2oulia مسؤولية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ms2oulia” (مسؤولية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning responsibility.
Meanings
- responsibility
- duty, obligation
Usage
Ms2oulia is borrowed from standard Arabic and is in common use. People say 7mel lms2oulia (take responsibility) and ana ma 3ndi 7tta ms2oulia (I have nothing to do with it, it's not my business). The expression 9ad 3la lms2oulia means "up to the responsibility". The word often evokes family duties, especially marriage and children, or professional obligations. The plural is ms2ouliyat. It is heard in conversation as well as in the media. Neutral register; the French word "responsabilité" sometimes appears in the same contexts.
Example
لا كنتي قد على مسؤولية يالاه نديك
la kanti 9ad 3la ms2oliya ylah ndik
“If you're up to the responsibility, come on, I'll take you.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ms2oulia” but also “mas2oulia”, “ms2oliya”, “mas2oliya” and “mes2oulia”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop.
Type “ms2oulia” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “responsibility”; “legal liability”: mas2ouliya in Tunisian.