tayer طاير
Algerian Darja · adjective
“tayer” (طاير) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning excellent, awesome.
Meanings
- excellent, awesome
- high, spaced out
- flying
Usage
Tayer is the participle of tar, "to fly". In youth slang, it is a term of praise: a person or thing that is tayer is excellent, a cut above the rest. The construction tayer f... means "very good at...". Depending on the context, the word can also describe someone who is overexcited, out of it, or even under the influence of a substance, which fits the image of "floating". The feminine is tayra. The register is informal. You have to rely on tone and context to tell praise from mockery.
Example
هاد المغني طاير، صوتو يهبل
had lmoghanni tayer, sawtou yahbel
“This singer is awesome, his voice is crazy good.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tayer” but also “tayar”, “tayr” and “tayeur”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tayer” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “flying, in flight”; “overjoyed, over the moon”: tayer in Tunisian.