ta2kid تاكيد
Tunisian Derja · noun
“ta2kid” (تاكيد) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning confirmation.
Meanings
- confirmation
- certainty
Usage
Ta2kid comes from Modern Standard Arabic and belongs to a rather formal register. It appears in the media, on social networks, or in somewhat formal speech. It is used, for example, to ask for confirmation of a piece of information (ta2kid ṣiḥḥa) or in the phrase bel ta2kid ("certainly"). In everyday conversation, Tunisians more often say akid for "surely" and readily use the French "confirmation" in administrative or commercial contexts. The hamza is often dropped in writing.
Example
نستنّاو التاكيد متاع الخبر
nestannew etta2kid mta3 el khbar
“We're waiting for confirmation of the news.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ta2kid” but also “takid”, “taakid” and “ta2kiid”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 2 is hamza (ء), a glottal stop.