tomobil طوموبيل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tomobil” (طوموبيل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning car, automobile.
Meanings
- car, automobile
Usage
Ṭumubil is the common word for a private car, borrowed from French and fully adapted. It is feminine: ṭumubil jdida, "a new car". It is often used with the assimilated article, ṭṭumubil. The synonym sayyara belongs to a more formal register, close to Standard Arabic. The variant ṭunubil is also heard. Common expressions include sag ṭṭumubil, "to drive the car", kra ṭumubil, "to rent a car". For a utility vehicle, kamiyu or bikup is used instead.
Example
بغيت نكري شي طوموبيل
bghit nkri chi Tomobil
“I'd like to rent a car.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tomobil” but also “tomobile”, “ttomobil”, “tomobila”, “tumubil” and “tombil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find طوموبيل and طمبيل, all the same word.
Type “tomobil” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “car, automobile”: tomobil in Algerian.