ti7a طيحة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ti7a” (طيحة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning fall.
Meanings
- fall
- failure, downfall (figurative)
Usage
Ti7a is the action noun of ta7 (to fall) and means a fall. It is often used with the verb itself, ta7 ti7a, "he took a fall", completed by an adjective: ti7a khayba, "a bad fall". Figuratively, the word can suggest a downfall or a setback, as in English. It is feminine, with the plural ti7at. The corpus sentence provided is badly translated and does not match this sense; it should not be used as a reference.
Example
طاح طيحة خايبة فالدروج
ta7 ti7a khayba fddrouj
“He had a bad fall on the stairs.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ti7a” but also “tii7a”, “tiha” and “tey7a”. 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 “ti7a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “fall, act of falling”; “failure, setback”: tay7a in Tunisian.