azra9 ازرق
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“azra9” (ازرق) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning blue (colour).
Meanings
- blue (colour)
Usage
Azra9 is the common adjective for the colour blue. It agrees in gender and number: azra9 (masculine), zar9a (feminine), zor9 (plural). It is placed after the noun: sabbat azra9 (a blue shoe), karhba zar9a (a blue car). It covers the whole range of blue. To specify a shade, fete7 (light) or ghame9 (dark) is often added. The pitfall is agreement: one does not say "karhba azra9" but "karhba zar9a". The word is also used for foods, such as blue cheese.
Example
شريت مريول أزرق للعيد.
chrit meryoul azra9 lel3id.
“I bought a blue sweater for the Eid.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “azra9” but also “azrak”, “azreg”, “azra2” and “zar9a”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop; 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.