Language

Everyday Darija

Darija is Moroccan Arabic — not the formal Arabic of newscasters, not French, not Amazigh. It is the language thirty-seven million Moroccans actually speak: in the souk, at the cafe, on the phone with their mothers. It borrows from Arabic, Amazigh, French, Spanish, and a few words nobody can trace at all. No textbook teaches it properly. This dictionary tries.

English or French

Darija

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Word of the Day

dafi f l7dith

دافئ ف الحديث

warm in speech

/DA-fi f l-7DITH/

Dictionary

10,000 words

Searchable by Darija, English, French, or Arabic script. Every entry includes pronunciation, part of speech, and example sentences.

Phrases

1,500 phrases

Organised by situation: at the souk, in a taxi, at the riad, blessings, emergencies. What to say and how to say it.

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