msid مسيد

Moroccan Darija · noun

“msid” (مسيد) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning traditional Quranic school.

Meanings

1. traditional Quranic school
2. neighbourhood place of religious teaching

Usage

The msid is the traditional Quranic school. Young children learn to read and memorise the Quran there, often before primary school or alongside it. The teacher is called lfqih. Pupils write on a wooden tablet, the lluḥa. People say mcha l lmsid "he went to the msid" and 9ra f lmsid "he studied at the msid". For many Moroccans the word recalls a childhood memory. Do not confuse it with jame3 "mosque" or with lmedrasa, which means the modern school.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “msid” but also “mssid” and “msyd”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “msid” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written المسيد, where it means “school (mainly primary), informal”; “Quranic school”: msid in Algerian.