tarikh تاريخ
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tarikh” (تاريخ) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning date (specific day).
Meanings
- date (specific day)
- history (past, subject)
Usage
Tarikh has two common meanings in darija. In everyday life, it mainly means the date: tarikh dyal lyoum (today's date), tarikh lmilad (date of birth), achmen tarikh? (what date?). It also means history, in the sense of the collective past or the school subject: tarikh dyal lmghrib (the history of Morocco), lqraya dyal tarikh. The plural tawarikh is mainly used for "dates". Beware: tarikh never means a story in the sense of a tale or anecdote. For that, say qissa or hkaya.
Example
واش جبت تاريخ صحيح
wach jbt tarikh S7i7
“Did I put in the right date?”
Forms
| plural | tawarikh |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tarikh” but also “tari5”, “tarikhe” and “tare5”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “tarikh” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “history (the past, the subject)”; “date”: tarikh in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “history (the past, the subject)”; “date”: tarikh in Tunisian.