m3addel معدل
Tunisian Derja · noun
“m3addel” (معدل) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning average (school grade).
Meanings
- average (school grade)
- average, average rate
Usage
M3addel refers above all to the school grade average, especially the baccalaureate one: m3addel el bac, which determines university placement. It is a central topic of conversation every summer. People also commonly say "el moyenne", borrowed from French, with the same meaning: 3malt el moyenne, "I got the pass mark". Outside school, m3addel is used for a rate or a statistical average, for example in the media. The word is a noun, even though it is sometimes used as an adjective in expressions such as m3addel motawasset.
Example
قداش جاب معدل في الباك؟
9addech jeb m3addel fel bac?
“What average did he get in the bac?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “m3addel” but also “m3adel”, “mo3adel”, “mo3adal” and “m3adl”. 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 “m3addel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “average (school grade)”; “average, mean rate”: mo3eddal in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “grade average”; “average, mean rate”: mo3adal in Algerian.