yajour ياجور
Moroccan Darija · noun
“yajour” (ياجور) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning bricks (collective).
Meanings
- bricks (collective)
Usage
Yajour is a collective noun meaning building bricks in general, and in particular the hollow red brick seen on every construction site in Morocco. For a single brick, the unit noun yajoura is used. One says bna b lyajour, "to build with bricks", as opposed to concrete or rammed earth. The word is part of everyday building vocabulary: masons, building sites, quotes, buying materials. Note that it may look like a plural, but it is a collective: it often takes masculine singular agreement.
Example
شرينا الياجور باش نبنيو الحيط
chrina lyajour bach nbniw l7it
“We bought bricks to build the wall.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “yajour” but also “yajur” and “yajor”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.