jeld جلد

Moroccan Darija · noun

“jeld” (جلد) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning leather.

Meanings

1. leather
2. skin (human or animal)

Usage

Jeld means both skin and leather. Referring to an object (shoes, bag, jacket), it means "leather": sbbat d jeld, "leather shoes". For the body, it is used with a possessive: jeld dyalek, "your skin". A dermatologist is commonly called tbib jeld. The form jelda refers to a single hide or piece of leather, for example the skin of the Eid sheep. Context is enough to tell the two meanings apart.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jeld” but also “jld”, “jald”, “jild” and “jelda”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “jeld” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “leather”; “skin”: jeld in Tunisian.