mad5el مدخل
Tunisian Derja · noun
“mad5el” (مدخل) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning entrance, access to a place.
Meanings
- entrance, access to a place
- brought in, involved
Usage
Madkhel refers to the entrance of a building, a station or a town. It is used mostly with a complement: madkhel el 3mara, madkhel el blad. It must be distinguished from mdakhel, participle of the verb dakhel ("to bring in"). Ach mdakhel… fi… means "what does … have to do with …?", that is, "what's the connection?" The plural of the noun is mdakhel. In arabizi, the two forms are often written the same way (mda5el), and only context tells them apart.
Example
المدخل متاع العمارة من الشيرة الأخرى
el madkhel mte3 el 3mara mel chira lo5ra
“The entrance of the building is on the other side.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mad5el” but also “mda5el”, “madkhel”, “madkhal” and “mdakhel”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “mad5el” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “entrance of a place, access”; “bringing in (participle of dekhkhel)”: madkhal in Moroccan.