tajammo3 تجمّع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tajammo3” (تجمّع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning gathering, crowd.
Meanings
- gathering, crowd
- grouping, assembly
Usage
Tajammo3 refers to a gathering of people, for example a demonstration, a sit-in or a crowd in front of a place. It can also refer to a grouping of entities. The word belongs more to a journalistic or formal register. In conversation, people say jma3a, nas mjem3in ("people gathered") or lemma for a meeting. Watch out for a pitfall: the same Arabic spelling is also used for the verb tjme3 or tjemme3 ("to gather", "to get together"), which you have to tell apart from context.
Example
كان واحد التجمّع كبير قدام البلدية
kan wa7ed ttajammo3 kbir 9eddam lbaladiya
“There was a big gathering in front of the town hall.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tajammo3” but also “tajmmo3”, “tajemmo3”, “tajamo3”, “tajammu3” and “tjm3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “tajammo3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to gather, to get together”; “to accumulate, to pile up”: tjemma3 in Algerian.