soura صورة

Moroccan Darija · noun

“soura” (صورة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning image (screen, television).

Meanings

1. image (screen, television)
2. photo, photograph

Usage

Soura means an image or a photo: a picture on television, a photo on a phone or a framed portrait. The most common plural is tsawer, "photos." The diminutive tswira, "little photo," is used affectionately. In the construct state, you hear souret or sorat, as in sorat l3ers, "the wedding photos." One says dreb soura, or more often sawwer, for "to take a photo." Pitfall: the Arabic spelling looks like that of sarout, "key." Incidentally, one of the source sentences contains swaret dar, which means "the keys of the house."

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “soura” but also “sora”, “sura”, “sowra” and “swira”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “soura” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “image, picture quality”; “photo”: soura in Algerian.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “picture, photo”; “film exposure”: soura in Tunisian.

How to say “image” in Moroccan and Algerian