Top 10 Most Popular Moroccan Swear Words

'Tabon yemek' is a crude attack on the other person's mother. Whoever throws this at someone knows the conversation is definitively over at that moment.

'Din mok' simply means 'your mother', but the extended version adds a curse to it. In a culture where the mother is considered sacred and completely untouchable, this is an attack of the highest order.

'Tabon' refers to the female genitals and is extremely crude on its own. It often serves as a building block for much heavier combinations you'd rather not say out loud.

'Kahba' and 'kech' translate as whore or slut. While 'kahba' is the heavier and more formal version, 'kech' is the modern street version that also became hugely popular in the Netherlands.

'Weld zina' is the Moroccan version of bastard or son of a whore. The word 'zina' refers to illicit sex in a religious context, which makes the insult a lot grimmer.

This is one of the most used terms in Moroccan street language in the Netherlands. It's a homophobic insult that directly questions the other person's masculinity.

'Msiakh' describes someone who is morally or physically unclean. You save it for people who consistently behave in a filthy or disrespectful way toward those around them.

'Kssara' means disaster or misfortune. You throw this at someone you regard as a walking bringer of bad luck.

Literally 'zebi' means dick, but in Moroccan Arabic the word works as a universal expletive for frustration. It works in exactly the same way as the Italian 'cazzo': the actual translation hardly matters.

'Hmar' means donkey. You use it for someone who is slow on the uptake, stupid or simply stubborn.