oghniya أغنية
Moroccan Darija · noun
“oghniya” (أغنية) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning song.
Meanings
- song
Usage
Oghniya is the usual term for a song, whatever the musical genre. It comes from Standard Arabic but is used in everyday conversation. The plural is aghani: "kansme3 l-aghani dyal…", I listen to the songs of… In more colloquial speech, ghenya is also heard, and the related verb is ghenna, "to sing". Frequent expressions include "kherjat oghniya jdida" (a new song has come out) and "ghenna chi oghniya" (to sing a song). For a piece without lyrics, one rather says musiqa or qet3a.
Example
خرجات أغنية جديدة
kherjat oghniya jdida
“A new song has come out.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “oghniya” but also “oghnia”, “oughnia”, “oghniyya” and “ghenya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.