no9ta نقطة

Tunisian Derja · noun

“no9ta” (نقطة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning point (place, detail, mark).

Meanings

1. point (place, detail, mark)
2. school grade
3. drop

Usage

No9ta means "point" in several senses: a specific place ("no9tet 3oubour", crossing point), an element of a discussion ("fama no9ta mouch wadh7a", there is a point that isn't clear) or the punctuation mark. At school, it is the grade: "chnouwa no9tek fel math?" (what grade did you get in maths?). The plural is no9at. The word is also used for a drop. For an English speaker, the "school grade" sense is the least obvious but one of the most frequent in speech.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “no9ta” but also “nokta”, “nogta”, “nu9ta” and “noqta”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find نقطة and نقطه, all the same word.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “no9ta” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “school grade”; “point (in a list, a talk)”: no9ta in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “grade (school)”; “point (score, sport)”: no9ta in Algerian.