nonbir نونبر
Moroccan Darija · noun
“nonbir” (نونبر) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning November (month).
Meanings
- November (month)
Usage
Nonbir is the name for November in the everyday calendar in Morocco, whose month names are close to the French ones: yennayr, fbrayr, mars… nonbir, dujanbir. It is used with f: "f nonbir" (in November). The numeral form is also very common: "chhar 11" (month eleven). The eastern Arabic month names (such as tichrin) are not used in Morocco. The date of the Green March falls in November, hence the expression "6 nonbir".
Example
غادي نسافر فنونبر
ghadi nsafer f nonbir
“I'm going to travel in November.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “nonbir” but also “nounbir”, “nowanbir” and “nonber”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.