tijara تجارة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tijara” (تجارة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning commerce, trade.
Meanings
- commerce, trade
- trading, business sector
Usage
Tijara refers to the activity of buying and selling, in both the general and the professional sense. One says khdem f tijara ("to work in commerce") or dar tijara ("to go into business"). The word is in common use in all registers and also appears in moral or religious phrases, such as tijara helal ("lawful trade"). There is a mocking proverb that contrasts tijara with khsara, "loss". For small neighbourhood trade, people more readily say l7anout ("the shop") or tbe33 w ychri ("buying and selling").
Example
خدامين ف تجارة
khedamin f tijara
“We work in commerce.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tijara” but also “tjara”, “ttijara” and “tijaara”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tijara” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “trade, commerce”; “business, commercial activity”: tjara in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “commerce, trade”; “business, commercial activity”: tjara in Tunisian.