bid بيض
Algerian Darja · noun
“bid” (بيض) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning eggs.
Meanings
- eggs
- white (colour)
- pure-hearted, without grudge
Usage
Arabic script covers two distinct words. Pronounced bid, it is the collective noun "eggs": chrit lbid, "I bought eggs". Bida is used for a single egg. Pronounced byed, it is the masculine adjective "white", with bayda in the feminine. The very common expression qalbou byed means "he has a white heart", that is, he is good, sincere and holds no grudges. It is often used to compliment someone spontaneous. In unvowelled writing, only context can settle it: a food for bid, a colour or a heart for byed.
Example
شريت البيض والحليب
chrit lbid w l7lib
“I bought eggs and milk.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “bid” but also “beid”, “byed”, “biid” and “bayd”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “bid” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “white”; “eggs (collective)”: byed in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “eggs (collective)”; “white (plural of "white")”: bidh in Tunisian.