tran تران
Tunisian Derja · noun
“tran” (تران) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning train.
Meanings
- train
Usage
Tran is the adapted loan from French "train". It is the everyday word in Tunisia for this means of transport, used far more in speech than the Standard Arabic equivalent. It is usually used with the article: et-tran. The type is specified with mta3: tran mta3 sel3a ("freight train"), tran mta3 msefrin ("passenger train"). To say you travel by train, say rkebt fi t-tran or mchit bel tran.
Example
التران تأخّر اليوم
et-tran t2a55er lyoum
“The train was late today.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tran” but also “trane” and “tren”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tran” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “train”: tran in Moroccan.