tyeb طيّب
Moroccan Darija · verb
“tyeb” (طيّب) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to cook, make food.
Meanings
- to cook, make food
- to cook (a food item)
Usage
Tyyeb is the usual verb for "to cook, to prepare a meal". It is used on its own (kat3ref ttyyeb ? "do you know how to cook?") or with an object (tyyeb l-3cha, "prepare dinner"; tyyeb l-l7em, "cook the meat"). The present is formed with ka-: kanTyyeb, "I cook". The participle tayeb means "cooked", and the simple verb tab means "to cook" or "to ripen" in the intransitive sense. Pitfall: in darija, this word does not have the sense of "good" that it has in Standard Arabic.
Example
واش طيب العشا؟
wach Teyeb l 3cha?
“Has he cooked dinner?”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanTyyb | Tyybt | |
| nta (you, m.) | katTyyb | Tyybti | Tyyb |
| nti (you, f.) | katTyybi | Tyybti | Tyybi |
| howa (he) | kayTyyb | Tyyb | |
| hiya (she) | katTyyb | Tyybat | |
| 7na (we) | kanTyybo | Tyybna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katTyybo | Tyybto | Tyybo |
| homa (they) | kayTyybo | Tyybo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tyeb” but also “tyyeb”, “teyyeb”, “tiyeb”, “tyyb” and “tiyyeb”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tyeb” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to cook, prepare a dish”; “to cook, to boil”: teyyeb in Algerian.