wellbare7 ولّبارح
Moroccan Darija · adverb
“wellbare7” (ولّبارح) is an adverb in Moroccan Darija meaning the day before yesterday.
Meanings
- the day before yesterday
Usage
Wellbare7 means "the day before yesterday". It is built on l-bare7 "yesterday" and used as an adverb of time, generally at the start or end of a sentence, without a preposition. It combines with a time of day: wellbare7 f lllil "the night before last". The word is very common in speech all over Morocco. Be careful not to confuse it with lbare7 "yesterday": the difference lies in the initial syllable, which Latin spellings render in various ways (well-, wall-, wl-).
Example
تجرح ولبارح ملي كان العب
tjra7 welbare7 mli kan la3b
“He got hurt the day before yesterday while he was playing.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wellbare7” but also “wlbar7”, “wallbare7”, “wllbare7” and “wellbar7”. 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.