3awed عاود
Algerian Darja · verb
“3awed” (عاود) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to redo, to start again.
Meanings
- to redo, to start again
- to repeat (words)
- to tell, to recount
Usage
A very common verb meaning "to redo, to start again": 3awed!, "start again!"; 3awedli, "repeat it to me". Followed by another verb, it indicates that an action happens again: 3awed ja, "he came back". Followed by a noun, it marks the resumption of an action: 3awed ez-zwaj, "he remarried". It is also used for "to tell": 3awedli wach sra, "tell me what happened". The present is y3awed. It has no connection with 3oud, "horse", despite a misleading gloss in some sources.
Example
ما فهمتش، عاود من الأول
ma fhamtch, 3awed mel lowel
“I didn't understand, start again from the beginning.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3awed” but also “3awad”, “aawed”, “3wed” and “3aoued”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “3awed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to repeat, say again”; “to do again (+ verb)”: 3awed in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to redo, to do again”; “to repeat (words)”: 3awed in Tunisian.