ماللي
Moroccan Arabic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From dialectal Arabic *مِنِ ٱللِّي (*mini l-lī, “from that”). Equivalent to من (min, “from”) + اللي (elli, “that”, relative pronoun).
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
ماللي • (milli)
- 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.