nidam نضام

Moroccan Darija · noun

“nidam” (نضام) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning order, organization.

Meanings

1. order, organization
2. system, regime
3. rules, discipline

Usage

Niḍam, often written with ض in darija, means the order or organization of something, and more broadly a system. It is heard in phrases like "ma kayn la niḍam la walou" ("there is no organization at all") or for an established way of working: "niḍam dyal l9raya" ("the school system"). In a more formal register, influenced by Standard Arabic, it also means the political regime. For order in the sense of tidiness, tertib is used instead. The variants nidam and nizam are common in writing.

Example

Forms

Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.

How to write it in Latin letters

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

Type “nidam” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “regime, political system, ruling power”; “order, organization”: nidham in Tunisian.