larb3 لاربع
Moroccan Darija · noun
“larb3” (لاربع) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning Wednesday.
Meanings
- Wednesday
Usage
Larb3 is the word for Wednesday. It is most often used after nhar: nhar larb3 (“Wednesday”, “on Wednesdays”). To place it in time, add lli fat (“last”) or jjay (“next”): larb3 lli fat, larb3 jjay. It is also combined with a time of day: nhar larb3 f sba7, nhar larb3 bl3chiya. Like the other days, it carries the article l- in a fixed form. Do not confuse it with rb3a, “four”: Wednesday is the “fourth” day counting from Sunday. In a souk context, it can also refer to the weekly Wednesday market.
Example
غات مشي ل لسال نهار لاربع?
ghat mchi l lasall nhar larb3?
“Are you going to the gym on Wednesday?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “larb3” but also “larba3”, “larbe3”, “larb3a” and “l'arb3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.