tbib طبيب
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tbib” (طبيب) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning doctor, physician.
Meanings
- doctor, physician
Usage
Tbib is the common word for "doctor". The feminine is tbiba, and the plural is tobba or tbibat. You say mcha 3nd ttbib (go to the doctor) and dowwez 3nd ttbib (get examined by a doctor). In daily life you also hear doktor or "le docteur" a lot, borrowed from French. For a specialist, you add a qualifier: tbib dyal snan (dentist), tbib dyal l3inin (ophthalmologist). Depending on the region, the word can also mean a vet or a healer.
Example
شنو قالك طبيب؟
chno gallik TTbib?
“What did the doctor tell you?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tbib” but also “tebib”, “ttbib” and “tbiba”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tbib” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “doctor, physician”; “healer (figurative)”: tbib in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “doctor, physician”: tbib in Tunisian.