mo9abla مقابلة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“mo9abla” (مقابلة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning match, sports game.
Meanings
- match, sports game
- interview, meeting
Usage
Mo9abla mainly means a match, especially a football match, and is slightly more formal than "match" or "matsh", which are very common in speech. Commentators and newspapers say "mo9abla mosiriya" (decisive match). The word can also mean an interview, in particular a job interview ("mo9ablet 5edma"), but in that sense many people simply say "entretien", as in French. The related verb is "9abel" (to meet, to face). Arabizi renders the qaf as 9.
Example
المقابلة تبدا على الثمنية متاع الليل.
el mo9abla tebda 3la thmanya mta3 ellil.
“The match starts at eight in the evening.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mo9abla” but also “m9abla”, “mou9abla”, “mkabla” and “mo9ablet”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.