mihna مهنة

Tunisian Derja · noun

“mihna” (مهنة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning trade, profession.

Meanings

1. trade, profession

Usage

Mihna refers to a profession, especially an organized or qualified one: lawyer, journalist, doctor. It appears in phrases like "mihnet el mo7amet" (the legal profession). It belongs to a somewhat more formal register. In everyday life, to ask someone what they do, people more often say "chnoua tekhdem?". For a manual trade, "sen3a" is often used. With a suffixed pronoun, the word becomes mihntek (your profession) or mihnti (my profession).

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mihna” but also “mehna”, “mahna” and “mhna”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “mihna” on the Arabic keyboard