jib جيب
Algerian Darja · verb
“jib” (جيب) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning bring! (imperative of "bring").
Meanings
- bring! (imperative of "bring")
- pocket (of a garment)
Usage
Jib is first of all the imperative of the verb jab / yjib (to bring, to bring back), very common throughout the country. With a suffix, one says "jibli" (bring me). "Rabbi yjib lkhir" means "may God bring good". The same word, as a noun, means the pocket of a garment: "f jibi" means "in my pocket". Only context decides between the two meanings. Note that jab is also used figuratively: "jab nqata" means "he got good marks". To "bring someone along", the same verb is used.
Example
جيبلي شوية ما من الكوزينة
jibli chwiya ma men lkouzina
“Bring me a bit of water from the kitchen.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jib” but also “djib” and “jeeb”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “jib” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “pocket (of a garment)”; “one's own money, means”: jib in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “pocket (of a garment)”: jib in Tunisian.