3id miled عيد ميلاد
Tunisian Derja · noun
“3id miled” (عيد ميلاد) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning birthday.
Meanings
- birthday
Usage
3id miled means a person's birthday. The possessive goes on the second word: "3id miledi" (my birthday), "3id miledek" (your birthday). To wish someone a happy birthday, you say "3id miled sa3id". The French "Joyeux anniversaire" is also very common, as is the word "anniversaire" or the abbreviation "aniv". The term is not used for the anniversary of an event or a wedding; for those, one says "anniversaire" or "dhikra" instead.
Example
غدوة عيد ميلادي، باش نعمل حفلة صغيرة.
ghodwa 3id miledi, bech na3mel 7afla sghira.
“Tomorrow is my birthday, I'm going to have a small party.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3id miled” but also “3id milad”, “aid miled” and “3id mileed”. 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 “3id miled” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “birthday”: 3id milad in Moroccan.