tred طرد

Tunisian Derja · verb

“tred” (طرد) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to dismiss, fire.

Meanings

1. to dismiss, fire
2. to chase away, throw out

Usage

Tred (imperfect yotrod) means to chase someone away, to throw them out. It is used for a dismissal from a job ("tardouh mel khedma"), an expulsion from school, or throwing someone out of one's home. In football, a sent-off player is called "matroud". The common passive is ntred: "ntred mel lycée" (he was expelled from high school). Watch out: the noun tard, written the same way in Arabic, means a postal parcel. The verb is used in all registers, from family conversation to the newspaper.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tred” but also “tard”, “trad”, “tored” and “tared”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “tred” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to kick out, throw out”; “to fire, dismiss”: tred in Moroccan.