3onwen عنوان
Tunisian Derja · noun
“3onwen” (عنوان) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning postal address, place of residence.
Meanings
- postal address, place of residence
- title of a book, article
Usage
3onwen primarily means the address where one lives or where something is sent: you ask "a3tini l3onwen" to get someone to give you an address. The possessive is often formed with mta3 ("l3onwen mte3i") or with a suffix ("3onwenek"). The sense of "title" also exists, especially for a book, an article or a programme, but it belongs to a more formal register. For an email address, people commonly say "l'adresse" or "l'email" in the French way. The word is pronounced with an initial 3ayn, which arabizi writes with the digit 3.
Example
ابعثلي العنوان متاعك باش نجيك.
ab3athli l3onwen mte3ek bech njik.
“Send me your address so I can come over.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3onwen” but also “3enwen”, “3onwan”, “3enwouen” and “3inwen”. 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 “3onwen” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “address (postal)”; “title (book, article)”: 3onwan in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “title (song, video, book)”; “address (postal)”: 3onwan in Algerian.