bayda بيضة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“bayda” (بيضة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning an egg.
Meanings
- an egg
- white (feminine of byeD)
Usage
Bayda means an egg, that is, the single unit drawn from the collective bayD ("eggs"). Its counted plural is bayDat: "jouj bayDat", two eggs. The same form is also the feminine of the adjective byeD, "white": "wr9a bayDa" (a blank sheet of paper), "rremla bayDa" (the white sand). This second use is in fact very common. Context decides. Note also "bayda" in the name of Casablanca, "Dar l-Bayda". The word is neutral, valid in all registers.
Example
كليت بيضة فالصباح
klit bayDa f sbaH
“I ate an egg this morning.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “bayda” but also “bida”, “byda” and “beyda”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “bayda” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “egg”; “white (feminine of "byed")”: bida in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “egg”; “white (feminine adjective)”: bidha in Tunisian.