dawriya دورية
Tunisian Derja · noun
“dawriya” (دورية) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning police patrol.
Meanings
- police patrol
- administrative circular
- periodicity
Usage
In everyday language, dawriya mainly refers to a police or national guard patrol: 3amlou dawriya (they did a round), fama dawriya fel kayes (there is a patrol on the road). In administration, the word also refers to a circular, that is, an official memo addressed to departments. More rarely, it means the periodicity of a payment or meeting. The word comes from Standard Arabic, but it is fully used in Tunisia. The plural is dawriyet.
Example
وقفتنا دورية في الطريق.
wa9fetna dawriya fel tri9.
“A patrol stopped us on the road.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dawriya” but also “dawria”, “dawriyya”, “dwriya” and “daouriya”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.