chart شرط
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chart” (شرط) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning condition.
Meanings
- condition
- clause (of a contract, agreement)
Usage
Chart (often pronounced chert) refers to a condition set before accepting something. It is used in everyday negotiations, among friends as well as in business. Frequent phrases: "3ndi chi chert" (I have a condition), "b chert" (on condition that), "bla chert" (without condition). The plural is chrout, used for the terms of a contract, a competition or a registration. The related verb chret means "to set a condition". For "on condition that", one also says "b chert ila".
Example
عندي شرط واحد بلا ما تقول لحد
3ndi chert wa7ed bla ma t9ol l 7ed
“I have just one condition: don't tell anyone.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chart” but also “chert”, “chrt”, “shart” and “shrt”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “chart” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “condition, requirement”; “clause (of an agreement)”: chart in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “condition, requirement”; “clause (of a contract)”: chart in Tunisian.