jeld جلد

Tunisian Derja · noun

“jeld” (جلد) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning leather.

Meanings

1. leather
2. skin

Usage

Jeld means skin, human or animal, and above all leather as a material. It is placed after the name of the object without a preposition: "sabbat jeld" (leather shoes), "jacketta jeld", "sac jeld". The expression "jeld w 3dham" (skin and bones) describes someone very thin. To talk about facial skin in a cosmetics context, many Tunisians switch to the French "la peau". The word is neutral and used in all registers.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jeld” but also “jild”, “jled” and “jlid”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “jeld” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “leather”; “skin (human or animal)”: jeld in Moroccan.