bidha بيضة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“bidha” (بيضة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning egg.
Meanings
- egg
- white (feminine adjective)
Usage
Bidha refers first of all to the egg. The plural is "adh" or "bidh" depending on the region, and you count with "zouz bidhet" (two eggs). "3ejja" is used for a Tunisian omelette, and "bidha m9alya" for a fried egg. The same word also serves as an adjective: it is the feminine of "abyadh" (white), as in "karhba bidha" (a white car) or "sfa7a bidha" (a blank page). Context almost always resolves the ambiguity. Online spellings vary between dh, th and d to write the emphatic consonant.
Example
نحب بيضة مقلية مع الخبز.
n7eb bidha m9alya m3a el khobz.
“I want a fried egg with bread.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “bidha” but also “beidha”, “baydha” and “bida”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “bidha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “an egg”; “white (feminine of byeD)”: bayda in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “egg”; “white (feminine of "byed")”: bida in Algerian.