jeweb جاوب
Tunisian Derja · verb
“jeweb” (جاوب) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to answer, to reply.
Meanings
- to answer, to reply
- answer, reply (noun: jweb)
Usage
The verb is conjugated jeweb, yjeweb (he answers). The person being answered is added as a suffix: "jewebni" (answer me), "jewbou" (answer him). For the thing being answered, use "3la": "jeweb 3al sou2el" (answer the question). The related noun, jweb or jeweb, means "answer". Also common is "ma yjewebch", often used to complain that someone doesn't pick up or reply to messages. The verb is in the everyday register and can be used in any situation.
Example
جاوبني كي نكلمك
jewebni ki nkalmek
“Answer me when I talk to you.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jeweb” but also “jaweb”, “jewib”, “jawib” and “jewab”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “jeweb” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to answer (a question)”; “to answer the phone”: jaweb in Moroccan.