lbar7 البارح
Moroccan Darija · adverb
“lbar7” (البارح) is an adverb in Moroccan Darija meaning yesterday.
Meanings
- yesterday
Usage
Lbare7 is the usual word for "yesterday" in Morocco, used in all registers. It can be placed freely at the beginning or end of a sentence. To say "last night", one says lbare7 f lil or lbare7 f le3chiya. To say "the day before yesterday", one says qbel lbare7. The word is often combined with ghir, which here means "only, no earlier than": ghir lbare7 jit, "I only arrived yesterday". In arabizi, the consonant 7 (ح) is sometimes written h, hence the spellings lbarh or lbareh.
Example
أش درتي البارح
ach drti lbar7
“What did you do yesterday?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “lbar7” but also “lbare7”, “lbarh”, “lbareh” and “lbari7”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “lbar7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “yesterday”: lbareh in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “yesterday”; “last night”: lbere7 in Tunisian.