portable پورتابل

Moroccan Darija · noun

“portable” (پورتابل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning mobile phone.

Meanings

1. mobile phone
2. laptop (rarer)

Usage

Portable is the loan from French, very common for the mobile phone. It is generally used with the article: l-portable. Typical phrases are "3tini l-portable dyalek", "give me your phone", and "tfa liya l-portable", "my phone has switched off". The most frequent plural is portablat. It is used in the same way as tilifoun or simply "téléphone". Context may sometimes point to a laptop, but this sense is rarer, since people more often say pc or laptop.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

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

Type “portable” on the Arabic keyboard

How to say “mobile phone” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian