chart شرط

Tunisian Derja · noun

“chart” (شرط) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning condition, requirement.

Meanings

1. condition, requirement
2. clause (of a contract)

Usage

Chart means a condition set for someone or a requirement. The most typical construction is 3la chart, "on condition that", for example "3la chart wa7ed", "on one condition only". One also says "3andi chart" ("I have a condition") and, in the negative, "ma3andi 7atta chart" ("I have no requirements"). The plural is chrout, frequent in administrative procedures and contracts, meaning "conditions" or "clauses". Not to be confused with chorta, "the police", which comes from the same root.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chart” but also “chert”, “shart” and “chorot”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “chart” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “condition”; “clause (of a contract, agreement)”: chart in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “condition, requirement”; “clause (of an agreement)”: chart in Algerian.

How to say “condition” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian