ghodwa غدوة
Tunisian Derja · adverb
“ghodwa” (غدوة) is an adverb in Tunisian Derja meaning tomorrow, the next day.
Meanings
- tomorrow, the next day
- later on
- in the future
Usage
Ghodwa is the usual word for "tomorrow" throughout Tunisia, in speech and in informal writing. It often comes at the start of a sentence: ghodwa nemchi, "tomorrow I will go". "The day after tomorrow" is ba3d ghodwa, and ghodwa ess'bah means "tomorrow morning". As a noun it also means the following day: nhar ghodwa. In Standard Arabic the same word rather refers to the morning, whereas in Derja it clearly means "tomorrow". In a familiar register it can also vaguely evoke the future, like "tomorrow" in English.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghodwa” but also “ghadwa”, “8odwa”, “ghoudwa” and “ghodoua”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find غدوة and غدوا and غدوه, all the same word.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “ghodwa” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “tomorrow”; “later, in the future”: ghodwa in Algerian.