ماللي

Moroccan Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dialectal Arabic *مِنِ ٱللِّي (*mini l-lī, “from that”). Equivalent to من (min, “from”) +‎ اللي (elli, “that”, relative pronoun).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mil.li/

Conjunction

ماللي • (milli)

  1. when
    ماللي كنت صغير كان جدي كيشري لي الفانيد وقت ما دزنا من حدا شي حانوت.
    milli kunt ṣḡīr kān jaddi kayišri li l-fānīd waqt ma duzna min ḥda ši ḥānūt
    When I was a kid, my grandfather used to buy me sweets whenever we passed by a shop.
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