ro3b رعب
Tunisian Derja · noun
“ro3b” (رعب) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning terror, dread.
Meanings
- terror, dread
- horror (film genre)
Usage
Ro3b means intense fear, terror. The most common use is "film ro3b", a horror film. People also say "3ayech fi ro3b", to live in terror. The word is shared with Standard Arabic, but it is fully in everyday use in Tunisian. For ordinary fear, people rather say khouf or "khaft". Ro3b expresses a stronger or more dramatic fear. The adjective "mor3eb" (terrifying) exists, but it is more literary. In daily speech, people rather say "ykhawwef", which frightens.
Example
ما نحبش نتفرج في أفلام الرعب
ma n7ebbech netfarej fi aflem e ro3b
“I don't like watching horror films.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ro3b” but also “r3ob”, “ra3b” and “rou3b”. 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 “ro3b” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “terror, dread”; “horror (film genre)”: ro3b in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “horror (genre)”; “terror, great fear”: ro3b in Algerian.