taman ثمن
Algerian Darja · noun
“taman” (ثمن) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning price, cost.
Meanings
- price, cost
- price to pay (figurative)
Usage
Thaman, often pronounced taman, refers to the price of something or the amount to be paid. It is often used in a possessive construction: taman-ha, "its price". It is understood everywhere. In market conversation, however, people prefer to ask the price with bechhal or qeddach ("how much"), and many speakers use es-soum for "the price". The word stays close to Standard Arabic and also suits the figurative sense ("to pay the price for something"). Not to be confused with tmen, "one eighth".
Example
الثمن تاعها غالي بزاف
et-taman ta3ha ghali bezzaf
“Its price is very high.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “taman” but also “thaman”, “tamen”, “thamen” and “tman”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “taman” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
The same word also exists in Moroccan Darija, written التمن, where it means “price, cost of something”; “eighth (pronounced ttumun)”: taman in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “price, cost paid”; “consequence suffered, price paid”: thmen in Tunisian.