tjara تجارة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“tjara” (تجارة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning commerce, trade.
Meanings
- commerce, trade
- business, commercial activity
Usage
Tjāra refers to commerce, both the activity of buying and selling and the economic sector. In everyday speech the first vowel is often dropped and one hears tjāra rather than tijāra. One says ye5dem fel tjāra ("he works in commerce") or dkhal lel tjāra ("he went into business"). The merchant is called tājer, plural tujjār. The word also appears in official names, such as the chamber of commerce or the ministry of commerce.
Example
خويا يخدم في التجارة
khouya ye5dem fel tjara
“My brother works in commerce.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tjara” but also “tijara”, “tejara” and “tjaara”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tjara” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “commerce, trade”; “trading, business sector”: tijara in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “trade, commerce”; “business, commercial activity”: tjara in Algerian.