regime ريجيم
Moroccan Darija · noun
“regime” (ريجيم) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning diet, dietary regimen.
Meanings
- diet, dietary regimen
Usage
Rijim is a borrowing from French "régime," fully integrated into darija. It is used only in the dietary sense, for a weight-loss or medical diet, never in the political sense. The usual construction is "dir rijim," to go on a diet, as well as "dayer" or "dayra rijim," to be on a diet. You also say "7bes rijim" for stopping a diet. The word is colloquial and very common, especially in conversations about weight and health. In written arabizi, it is often spelled as in French.
Example
خاصك تدير ريجيم
khassk tdir regime
“You need to go on a diet.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “regime” but also “rijim”, “rejim”, “rigime” and “rijime”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “regime” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “diet, dietary regimen”; “accursed, damned (in "chitan rjim")”: rejim in Tunisian.