tyara طيارة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tyara” (طيارة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning airplane.
Meanings
- airplane
- flight (trip by plane)
Usage
Tyyara is the usual word for "airplane" in Morocco. One says chedd t-tyyara for "to take the plane" and rkeb f t-tyyara for "to get on the plane". By extension, 3ndi tyyara means "I have a flight". The word is feminine: tyyara kbira, "a big plane". The usual plural is tyyarat. You also hear avyon, borrowed from French, but tyyara remains the most natural term. Latin spellings vary a lot in the vowel and the doubling of the y: tyara, tiyara, teyyara.
Example
أنا كنشد طيارة بزاف.
ana kanchdd Tyara bzaf.
“I take the plane very often.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tyara” but also “tiyara”, “teyyara”, “tayyara” and “tiyyara”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tyara” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “airplane”; “kite (depending on region)”: tiyara in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “plane”; “kite”: tayara in Tunisian.