chrab الشراب
Tunisian Derja · noun
“chrab” (الشراب) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning alcohol, alcoholic drink.
Meanings
- alcohol, alcoholic drink
- wine
- drink
Usage
Ech-chrab, or chrab without the article, refers in Tunisia to alcoholic drinks in general, and more particularly to wine. The pitfall is the meaning: it is not just any drink. To say "drink" or "something to drink", other words are used, such as "machroub" or "hkeya tochrob". "Ychrob" (he drinks) can also imply that he drinks alcohol. The word is neutral and descriptive. It appears in expressions like "bouteillet chrab" or "yhab ech-chrab" (he likes alcohol).
Example
هو ما يشربش الشراب، ديما يشرب جوس
houwa ma yochrobch ech-chrab, dima yochrob jus
“He doesn't drink alcohol, he always has juice.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chrab” but also “echrab”, “ech-chrab”, “shrab”, “chreb” and “chrabb”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find الشراب and شراب, all the same word.
Type “chrab” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “alcohol, alcoholic drink”; “wine”: chrab in Moroccan.