ti9a ثقة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ti9a” (ثقة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning trust, confidence.
Meanings
- trust, confidence
- reliable person or thing
- self-confidence
Usage
Ti9a refers to the trust placed in someone. It is built with the preposition f: "3endi fik ti9a" (I trust you), "dert fih ti9a" (I trusted him), "3emmerni ma n7ett fih ti9a" (I will never trust him). Used alone after a noun or with rah, the word works as a predicate and means "reliable, trustworthy": "had l-mékanisyan ti9a" (this mechanic is trustworthy). The term comes from the written language but is perfectly common in speech. The opposite is "ma fihch ti9a" or "ma kayt-ti9ch".
Example
أنا عندي فيك ثقة
ana 3endi fik ti9a
“I have trust in you.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ti9a” but also “thi9a”, “tiqa”, “ti9aa”, “thiqa” and “tti9a”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find ثقة and تقة, all the same word.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “ti9a” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “trust, confidence”; “reliable, trustworthy person”: thi9a in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “trust”; “reliable person”: thi9a in Tunisian.