3amaliya عملية
Tunisian Derja · noun
“3amaliya” (عملية) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning surgery, surgical operation.
Meanings
- surgery, surgical operation
- operation, action carried out
- process, procedure
Usage
In everyday language, 3amaliya primarily means a surgical operation: "3mal 3amaliya" (he had an operation), "3amaliya fil 9alb" (a heart operation). By extension, the word covers a police or military operation, a bank transaction, or a multi-step procedure. In this last sense it is closer to the media register. The plural is 3amaliyat. For a medical procedure, the French word "opération" is also widely heard in speech. The associated verb is 3mal (to do/make): one "does" an operation, one does not "undergo" it.
Example
أمي عملت عملية و توة لاباس عليها.
ommi 3amlet 3amaliya w tawa labes 3liha.
“My mother had an operation and now she is fine.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3amaliya” but also “3amaleya”, “amaliya”, “3amalia” and “amaleya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “3amaliya” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “surgical operation”; “operation, process”: 3amaliya in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “surgical operation”; “operation, process”: 3amaliya in Algerian.