tsjil تسجيل

Moroccan Darija · noun

“tsjil” (تسجيل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning recording (audio, video).

Meanings

1. recording (audio, video)
2. registration, enrollment

Usage

Tsjil has two common uses. First, it refers to an audio or video recording: "3ndi tsjil dyalo" (I have a recording of him), notably voice messages. It also refers to enrollment in a school, university or administration, in the sense of an official procedure. The corresponding verb is sejjel (to record, to register). The register is neutral. In school and administrative contexts, many Moroccans also say "l'inscription" in French. Context is enough to tell the two senses apart.

Example

Forms

Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tsjil” but also “tasjil”, “tesjil”, “tssjil” and “tasjiil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “tsjil” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “registration (school, university)”; “recording (sound, video)”: tasjil in Tunisian.