"Meryool" ?

[algerian_rai_girl]

hi cheb5alid ,wushrak?
i talked with my algerian friend and she told me the meaning of (3urgoub)..it is little bit complicated..so pay attention please.
at the end of your (right)ankle,you will find in the right side of it a circle or round bone(=3urgoub),in the left is the same thing,so..from along time ago,people in algeria used to think that the one who has this circle,round bone bulging or standing out is a lucky person..
so Khaled says, (la zhur = la meymoon) =no luck, la 3urgoub zeen ( no luck )!!
i hope you understood what i have just written,if you found out later that it is wrong,don't blame me,blame her ;P
ciao,,

[Edited by algerian_rai_girl on 10th January 2004 at 17:53]

[netmen2000]

Hi @,

3urgoub in in Moroccan Arabic (Dardja) means in English Hump (humpback or arched back) [like on camel]!
"la 3urgoub zine" means "no beautiful hump"... I also think -like algerian_rai_girl- it's an ambiguous expression and means putatively "no luck" (I at least understand it as that)

3urgoub = (in German) "Buckel / Höcker"
= (en Francais) "le dos voûté / rond"

Now to "Meryool"... I think that word means in Maghreb somedody dirty / indecent; who hangs in the bars, drinks often alcohol and accompanies girls (Boys for "Meryoola"!)... [may be senseless in Europe]

That are only suppositions
Peace,
netmen2000

[Edited by netmen2000 on 13th January 2004 at 15:58]

[Kenny3]

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[nini]

wow... sorry to tell u all.. but maryool doesn't mean any of the things u have said above... now unless algerians have twisted this word around also... but the REAL classical arabic meaning to this.. in which algerians that i know go by it is that maryool means "Uniform" like a school uniform or work.. or any sort... but if there is a special meaning to it in the algerian darja that's a different story! o.0