byed بيض
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“byed” (بيض) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning white.
Meanings
- white
- eggs (collective)
Usage
The same Arabic spelling covers two distinct words. The first is byeD, "white" in the masculine singular; its feminine is bayDa and its plural is biD. The second is bayD, a collective noun meaning "eggs": "l-bayD", "an omelette of bayD". For a single egg, you say bayDa. Only pronunciation and context tell them apart. Byed appears in common expressions such as "k7el w byeD" (black and white) or "wjhou byeD" (a bright face, honourable). The plural of "white" agrees with a human noun or a plural.
Example
كحل و بيض?
k7el o byeD?
“Black and white?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “byed” but also “byad”, “bid” and “bayd”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “byed” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “eggs”; “white (colour)”: bid in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “eggs (collective)”; “white (plural of "white")”: bidh in Tunisian.