ba3d بعد
Algerian Darja · preposition
“ba3d” (بعد) is a preposition in Algerian Darja meaning after (time).
Meanings
- after (time)
- then, later
Usage
Ba3d is a preposition of time: "ba3d sla" (after the prayer), "ba3d lftour" (after the meal). It is also used as an adverb in the very common phrase "men ba3d" (then, later): "nchoufek men ba3d" (I'll see you later). Followed by "ma", it introduces a clause: "ba3d ma klina" (after we ate). The senses "dimension" or "far away" belong to Standard Arabic, which pronounces it "bou3d". In darja, distance is rather expressed with "b3id".
Example
نجي بعد الصلاة
nji ba3d sla
“I'll come after the prayer.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ba3d” but also “baad”, “b3d”, “ba3de” and “baed”. 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 “ba3d” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “after”; “later (men be3d)”: be3d in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “after (in time)”; “then, afterwards”: ba3d in Tunisian.