noskha نسخة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“noskha” (نسخة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning copy, exemplar.
Meanings
- copy, exemplar
- version (of software, a text)
Usage
The noun noskha (plural nosakh or nskhat) refers to a copy of a document, a book or a newspaper: "noskha mn lbitaqa" (a copy of the identity card), constantly requested in administrative procedures. It is also used for the version of an app or program ("noskha jdida"), and for the edition of a festival or a competition. In colloquial speech, "noskha mennu" is said of a person who looks exactly like another, like "the spitting image of him". The register is neutral.
Example
خرجات 100 نسخة
5arjat 100 nos5a
“A hundred copies came out.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “noskha” but also “nos5a”, “nskha” and “nuskha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “noskha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “copy, duplicate”; “version (of a game, software)”: nouskha in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “copy of a document”; “version (software, edition)”: nos5a in Tunisian.