ma3dnous معدنوس
Tunisian Derja · noun
“ma3dnous” (معدنوس) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning parsley.
Meanings
- parsley
Usage
Ma3dnous is parsley, very common in Tunisian cooking: salads, kefta, chorba, stuffings and omelettes. At the market it is sold in bunches: "rbat ma3dnous", a bunch of parsley. It is most often said chopped, "ma3dnous mfarrem". It is a collective noun and is not used in the plural. There are many pronunciation variants, hence different spellings online. Do not confuse it with coriander, which is kosbar.
Example
جيبلي ربطة معدنوس من السوق
jibli rbat ma3dnous mel souk
“Bring me a bunch of parsley from the market.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ma3dnous” but also “maadnous”, “ma3danous” and “m3adnous”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “ma3dnous” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “parsley”: ma3dnous in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “parsley”: ma3dnous in Algerian.