loubia لوبيا
Moroccan Darija · noun
“loubia” (لوبيا) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning white beans (dried).
Meanings
- white beans (dried)
- bean stew
- green beans (loubia khedra)
Usage
Loubia first means dried white beans, and above all the very popular dish made from them: beans simmered in a sauce of tomato, garlic, cumin and paprika. It is eaten hot with bread, at home or in small eateries. To talk about green beans, you specify loubia khedra. The word is a collective noun: people say "kla loubia" (he ate beans) without putting it in the plural. It belongs to the common, everyday register.
Example
اليوما غادي نطيّب لوبيا
lyouma ghadi ntiyyeb loubia
“Today I'm going to cook beans.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “loubia” but also “lobia”, “loubya”, “lobya” and “lubia”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “loubia” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “white beans (dried)”; “bean stew”: loubia in Algerian.