ghrib غريب
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“ghrib” (غريب) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning strange, odd.
Meanings
- strange, odd
- stranger, not from here
- feeling out of place
Usage
Ghrib describes what surprises or seems abnormal: 7aja ghriba, "a strange thing". Used alone as an exclamation, ghrib! is equivalent to "weird!" or "that's strange". It also refers to a person who comes from elsewhere, a stranger to the neighborhood or the town, rather than a foreigner in the sense of nationality, which is expressed with bérrani. It is often heard in expressions of uprootedness: 7asses rou7i ghrib, "I feel like a stranger". The feminine is ghriba, the plural ghrab or ghorba depending on the meaning. The comparative aghreb means "stranger".
Example
صارتلي حاجة غريبة برشة البارح.
sartli 7aja ghriba barcha lbere7.
“Something very strange happened to me yesterday.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghrib” but also “gharib”, “8rib” and “ghreeb”. 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 “ghrib” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “strange, odd”; “foreign, unfamiliar”: ghrib in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “strange, odd”; “stranger, far from home”: ghrib in Algerian.