ra9m رقم
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ra9m” (رقم) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning number (phone, etc.).
Meanings
- number (phone, etc.)
- figure, digit
- record
Usage
Ra9m mainly refers to a phone, card or file number, as well as a code: ra9m sirri "secret code". In speech, the French numéro, or nimiro, is also heard very often, especially for phone numbers. Ra9m can also mean a digit or a number, but for counting other expressions are more usual. The expression ra9m 9iyasi, "record", comes from sports and journalistic language. The plural is ar9am: had l'ar9am mabqawš "these numbers don't work anymore". To ask for someone's number, say ra9m dyalek.
Example
سيفت ليا رقم ديالك
sift liya ra9m dyalk
“Send me your number.”
Forms
| plural | ar9am |
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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 “ra9m” but also “raqm”, “re9m”, “r9m” and “rakm”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “ra9m” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “number (phone)”; “number, figure”: ra9m in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “number”; “figure, digit”: ra9m in Tunisian.