msawer مصور

Tunisian Derja · noun

“msawer” (مصور) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning photographer.

Meanings

1. photographer
2. cameraman, videographer

Usage

Msawwer refers to a person who takes photos, professionally or as an amateur. It is also used for someone who films, for example at weddings, where the msawwer is indispensable. The feminine is msawwra and the plural msawwrin. The word comes from the verb sawwer, meaning to photograph or to film. It is also used for a photo studio: nemchi lel msawwer, "I'm going to the photographer's", for example for ID photos. The French word photographe is also common in speech, especially in cities. The register of msawwer is neutral.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “msawer” but also “msawwer”, “mswer”, “msawar” and “mosawer”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “msawer” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “photographer”; “cameraman, videographer”: msawer in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “photographer”; “cameraman, videographer”: msawer in Algerian.

How to say “photographer” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian