thmen ثمن
Tunisian Derja · noun
“thmen” (ثمن) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning price, cost paid.
Meanings
- price, cost paid
- consequence suffered, price paid
Usage
Thmen means "price", but in everyday conversation people rather ask "bqaddech?" or talk about the "soum" of an item. Thmen appears mostly in a somewhat more formal register or in figurative expressions: "khalles ethmen" or "dfa3 ethmen", to pay the price, to suffer the consequences of one's actions. It is also found in "thmen ghali" (a high price, a heavy toll). Be careful not to confuse it with thomn, which means "an eighth" and is written the same way in Arabic.
Example
كل واحد يخلص ثمن غلطتو
kol wa7ed ykhalles thmen ghalttou
“Everyone pays the price for their mistake.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “thmen” but also “thaman”, “tmen”, “thmon” and “themen”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “thmen” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
The same word also exists in Moroccan Darija, written التمن, where it means “price, cost of something”; “eighth (pronounced ttumun)”: taman in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “price, cost”; “price to pay (figurative)”: taman in Algerian.