9ayed قيد

Tunisian Derja · verb

“9ayed” (قيد) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to note down, jot down.

Meanings

1. to note down, jot down
2. to register, record

Usage

9ayyed (with the doubled "y") means to write something down so as not to forget it: a number, an address, a debt. It is often used in the imperative: "9ayyed 3andek" (note it down). It is also used for enrolment in an administrative or school register, in the sense of to register. The noun "9ayd" means registration or enrolment. It appears in the standard expression "3la 9ayd el 7ayet" (alive). Depending on the region, the "9" is sometimes pronounced "g" (goyyed). Everyday register.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “9ayed” but also “9ayyed”, “gayed”, “goyedd” and “kayed”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “9ayed” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to note, write, record”; “to put on credit, record a debt”: 9yed in Moroccan.