gharbi غربي
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“gharbi” (غربي) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning Western, of the West.
Meanings
- Western, of the West
- western (direction, region)
Usage
Gharbi is used for what relates to the West: Western music, culture, countries or habits. One says for example ghna gharbi for Western music. The word also has a geographic sense, as in el wasat el gharbi, the Centre-West of Tunisia. The feminine is gharbiya, and the plural gharbiyin, "Westerners". Finally, Gharbi is a common family name in Tunisia, not to be confused with the adjective.
Example
يحب يسمع الموسيقى الغربية
y7eb yesma3 el musique el gharbiya
“He likes listening to Western music.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “gharbi” but also “8arbi”, “gherbi” and “rarbi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “gharbi” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “western, of the west”; “from the Gharb region”: gharbi in Moroccan.