tajriba تجربة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tajriba” (تجربة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning experience, know-how.
Meanings
- experience, know-how
- trial, attempt
- lived experience
Usage
Tajriba refers first to professional or life experience. It is used with 3and to mean "have": 3endha tajriba ("she has experience"). The word also serves for a trial, something one tries to see what happens, and for a moment one has lived through: tajriba zwina ("a great experience"). The plural is tajarib. In the working world, many speakers simply say the French word "expérience". The corresponding verb, jerreb, means "to try, to test".
Example
هي عندها تجربة
hia 3endha tjriba
“She has experience.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tajriba” but also “tjriba”, “tejriba”, “tajreba” and “tjirba”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tajriba” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “lived experience”; “trial, attempt”: tajriba in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “acquired experience, know-how”; “trial, test”: tajrba in Tunisian.