habat هبط
Tunisian Derja · verb
“habat” (هبط) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to go down, descend.
Meanings
- to go down, descend
- to land; to return home
- (habbat) to bring down, lower
Usage
Habat (imperfect yahbat) means to go down: stairs, the street, downtown, or out of a vehicle (habat mel karhba, to get out of the car). It also refers to a plane landing. In the diaspora, it is used for returning to the home country: habat lil bled. The intensive form habbat is transitive: to bring down, to lower a price or a volume. It is also commonly used for "to download" a file. The opposite is tla3 (to go up), and talla3 for the transitive form.
Example
كان جيت بالحقّ مجاهد اجا اهبط لل بلاد ,
ken jit bel7a9 moujehid ija ahbat lil bled ,
“If you're truly a mujahid, come on, come down to the country,”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “habat” but also “habet”, “hbat”, “ahbat” and “hbet”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “habat” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to go down, descend”; “to land (plane)”: hbet in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to go down, descend”; “to land”: hbet in Algerian.