mtwesset متوسّط
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“mtwesset” (متوسّط) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning average.
Meanings
- average
- intermediate
Usage
A common adjective for a level, size or quality that is neither high nor low: an average student, an intermediate level in a language, a medium size. It is very often found with lmoustawa, "the level". The feminine is mtwessTa and the plural is mtwessTin. The same word is also used to name the Mediterranean: lb7er lmtwesseT. For clothing, many people simply say "medium" or wesT. Do not confuse it with wsseT, "in the middle".
Example
راه المستوى ديالو متوسط.
rah lmoustawa dialou mtwsset.
“His level is average.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mtwesset” but also “mtwsset”, “motawasit”, “mtwasset”, “motawassit” and “motawssit”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “mtwesset” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “average, neither good nor bad”; “middle school”: motawasset in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “medium, of middle size or value”; “intermediate (level)”: metwasset in Tunisian.