tabbakh طباخ
Tunisian Derja · noun
“tabbakh” (طباخ) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning cook.
Meanings
- cook
- chef (restaurant, event)
Usage
Tabbakh refers to a cook, whether professional or amateur. It is also used for the person who prepares meals for weddings and large celebrations. The feminine is tabbakha, the plural tabbakhin. The word appears in the proverb tabbakh essemm ydhou9ou, "the one who prepares the poison ends up tasting it". It is said of someone who suffers the harm they caused. To compliment someone, you say enti tabbakh behi, "you cook well".
Example
خويا طبّاخ في أوتيل
khouya tabbakh fi otel
“My brother is a cook in a hotel.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tabbakh” but also “taba5”, “tabba5”, “tabakh” and “tabbe5”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “tabbakh” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “cook”; “head chef”: tbbakh in Moroccan.