ard ارض
Algerian Darja · noun
“ard” (ارض) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning ground, floor.
Meanings
- ground, floor
- land, plot
- earth, homeland
Usage
Lard (l'ard) first means the ground: "tah fel ard" (he fell on the ground), "93ad 3la lard" (he sat on the ground). The word also means a piece of land or a plot that one owns: "3andou ard f lbled" (he has land in the village). In a higher or patriotic register, it takes the sense of native land or country, as in "ard echouhada" (the land of the martyrs). The word is feminine. The article often fuses with it in speech, hence the spellings lard and l'ard.
Example
طاح فالأرض
tah fel ard
“He fell on the ground.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ard” but also “2ard”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop.
Type “ard” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “floor, ground”; “land, plot”: ard in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “land, plot”; “ground, floor”: ardh in Tunisian.