sabe3 سابع
Tunisian Derja · numeral
“sabe3” (سابع) is a numeral in Tunisian Derja meaning seventh.
Meanings
- seventh
Usage
Sabe3 is the ordinal of seb3a ("seven"). Placed before the noun without an article, it behaves like a superlative: sabe3 nhar ("the seventh day"), sabe3 jar ("the seventh neighbour"). The feminine is sab3a. The expression fi sabe3 nouma means "in the deepest sleep"; it is used for someone you can't manage to wake up. Sabe3 also refers to the seventh day after a birth, more often called sbou3.
Example
نسكن في الطابق السابع.
noskon fel tabe9 es-sabe3.
“I live on the seventh floor.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sabe3” but also “sabi3”, “saba3”, “sabaa” and “sebe3”. 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 “sabe3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “seventh (ordinal)”: sab3 in Moroccan.