lbare7 لبارح
Moroccan Darija · adverb
“lbare7” (لبارح) is an adverb in Moroccan Darija meaning yesterday.
Meanings
- yesterday
- last night (with f lil)
Usage
Lbareh is the usual word for "yesterday". It generally goes at the end of the sentence and is used with a verb in the perfective: mchit lbareh (I went there yesterday). For "last night", one says lbareh f lil or lbareh bllil. "The day before yesterday" is wlbareh, not to be confused with lbareh. In conversation, lbareh can also refer to a fairly vague recent past, like "the other day". Spellings with 7 represent the emphatic h of Arabic.
Example
مشتي للسال لبارح?
mchti l lasall lbar7?
“Did you go to the gym yesterday?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “lbare7” but also “lbar7”, “lbareh”, “lbarh” 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 “lbare7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written البارح, where it means “yesterday”: lbareh in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
The same word also exists in Tunisian Derja, written البارح, where it means “yesterday”; “last night”: lbere7 in Tunisian.