tri طري
Algerian Darja · adjective
“tri” (طري) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning tender, soft (bread, meat).
Meanings
- tender, soft (bread, meat)
- fresh (recently made food)
- young, naive, inexperienced
Usage
Tri mainly describes food that is pleasant to bite into: bread of the day that is still soft (khobz tri), well-tenderized meat, fresh vegetables. It is the opposite of yabes (dry, hard). The feminine is tria, the plural triyin. The doubling tri tri stresses the quality: "really tender". Applied to a person, it colloquially means someone young, gentle or a bit naive. Note: for a fruit, "fresh" in the sense of recently picked is often said jdid, and "fresh" in the sense of cold is said bared. Tri therefore carries above all the idea of softness and tenderness.
Example
هاد الخبز طري، مازال سخون.
had el khobz tri, mazal skhoun.
“This bread is soft, it's still warm.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tri” but also “tari”, “trii” and “teri”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tri” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “tender, soft”; “fresh (bread, food)”: tri in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “soft, tender, supple”; “fresh (bread, fish, vegetable)”: tri in Tunisian.