jrima جريمة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“jrima” (جريمة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning crime, serious act punished by law.
Meanings
- crime, serious act punished by law
- offence, misdemeanour
- scandalous, shameful act (hyperbolic)
Usage
Jrima means a crime in the legal sense: murder, serious theft, assault. The word comes from Standard Arabic and is used unchanged in derja, in the news, in conversations about crime stories or politics (jrimet harb, "war crime"). In the construct state, the ending becomes -et: jrimet qatl, "a murder". In casual speech it is also used hyperbolically for an act seen as scandalous, for example wasting food or missing an obvious opportunity. The usual plural is jra'em. For the perpetrator, one says mojrem.
Example
صارت جريمة في الحومة البارح
sarit jrima fel 7ouma lbere7
“There was a crime in the neighbourhood yesterday.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jrima” but also “jarima”, “jrime” and “jrimaa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “jrima” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “crime, offense”; “outrage (exaggeration)”: jarima in Moroccan.