sebbora سبّورة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sebbora” (سبّورة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning blackboard.
Meanings
- blackboard
Usage
Sebbora refers to the board in a classroom, on which the teacher writes with chalk or a marker. It is school vocabulary, known to everyone who has attended Moroccan school. One says tle3 l sebbora for "go up to the board", an expression the teacher uses to call a pupil forward, and kteb f sebbora for "write on the board". The word applies to both blackboards and whiteboards. It does not mean a painting: another word is used for that.
Example
طلع كتب فالسبورة
tle3 kteb f sebbora
“Go up and write on the board.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sebbora” but also “sbbora”, “sabbora”, “sbora” and “sebboura”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.