tbi3i طبيعي
Algerian Darja · adjective
“tbi3i” (طبيعي) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning natural, without artifice.
Meanings
- natural, without artifice
- normal, logical
- (machi tbi3i) incredible, extraordinary
Usage
Tbi3i describes what is natural: a product without additives, a spontaneous person without airs. It is also used to say that something is normal or obvious: "it's tbi3i that he is tired". In speech, the negation machi tbi3i or mach tbi3i is very frequent in the figurative sense of "incredible, crazy". It is often used positively, as an intensifier: "nhabbek mach tbi3i" means "I love you to bits". Context shows whether something abnormal or something extraordinary is meant. The feminine is tbi3iya.
Example
هاد العسل طبيعي، جبتو من عند فلاح.
had el 3sel tbi3i, jebtou men 3and fellah.
“This honey is natural, I bought it from a farmer.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tbi3i” but also “tabi3i”, “tbi3y”, “tabi3y” and “tbii3i”. 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 “tbi3i” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “normal, ordinary”; “natural, additive-free”: tabi3i in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “natural, not artificial”; “normal, obvious”: tbi3i in Tunisian.