nou3 نوع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“nou3” (نوع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning type, kind, sort.
Meanings
- type, kind, sort
- brand, model (of a product)
Usage
Nou3 (plural anwa3) is the common word for "type, kind". It is used a lot when shopping: "achmn nou3?" (what kind? what brand?). It is often used with the demonstrative and no article: "had nou3" (this kind). Applied to people, the expression can be slightly pejorative: "had nou3 d n-nas" (this kind of people). The pronunciation wavers between nou3 and naw3, the latter being closer to Standard Arabic. In commercial language, you also hear the loanword "sort" or the word "marka".
Example
أشمن نوع لي بغيتي؟
achmn no3 libghiti?
“Which type do you want?”
Forms
| plural | anwa3 |
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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 “nou3” but also “no3”, “naw3”, “now3”, “nu3” and “new3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “nou3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “type, kind, sort”; “variety, quality (of a product)”: nou3 in Algerian.