tayya7 طيح

Tunisian Derja · verb

“tayya7” (طيح) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning make fall, drop.

Meanings

1. make fall, drop
2. lose, sink (money)
3. lower (a price)

Usage

Tayya7 is the transitive verb corresponding to ta7 (to fall). It first means to make an object fall: "tayya7t ettelifoun" (I dropped the phone). Figuratively, it is used for money lost or sunk into a venture: "tayya7 barcha flous". At the market, "tayya7 essoum" or "tayya7li chwaya" amounts to asking for a lower price. Do not confuse it with the intransitive form ti7, which is the imperative of "to fall". The verb is conjugated on the model tayya7 / ytayya7.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tayya7” but also “taya7”, “tayye7”, “tayah”, “ti7” and “etti7”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.

Type “tayya7” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to make fall, drop”; “to drop, lose along the way”: tye7 in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to drop, make fall”; “to drop someone off (by car)”: tayah in Algerian.