radio راديو
Moroccan Darija · noun
“radio” (راديو) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning X-ray.
Meanings
- X-ray
- radio, radio set
Usage
Radio is a loanword from French, well integrated into Moroccan Arabic. In a medical context it commonly means an X-ray, with the verb dar: dir radio, "get an X-ray done". It also means the radio set or the radio station, as in sme3t f radio, "I heard it on the radio". Its gender varies between speakers. The meaning is easily deduced from context, since "getting a radio done" almost always refers to the medical exam. The word is used in all registers.
Example
مادرتيش راديو لي قلت ليك ديك لمرة
madrtich radio li glt lik dik lmerra
“You didn't get the X-ray I told you about the other time.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “radio” but also “radyo” and “radiou”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “radio” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “radio, radio station”; “X-ray”: radio in Algerian.