tsawer تصور
Tunisian Derja · verb
“tsawer” (تصور) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to imagine, picture.
Meanings
- to imagine, picture
- to have one's picture taken
- conception, idea (noun)
Usage
Tsawwer is very often used in the imperative as "imagine!" to introduce something surprising: tsawwer chnouwa sar!, "imagine what happened!". The plural is tsawrou. Conjugated, it means "to imagine": ma nejjemch nitsawwer, "I can't imagine". It also has the very common meaning "to have one's picture taken", linked to taswira ("photo"): t7eb titsawwer m3aya?. As a noun (tasawwur), it means a conception or a vision. This sense belongs more to the formal or media register.
Example
تتصوّروا اللي حديثنا ما وفاش و ما حسّيناش ب ثنيّة حتّى طرف .
tetsawrou elli hdithna mawfech w ma7assinech b thneyya 7atta tarf .
“Imagine: our conversation never ended and we didn't feel the journey at all.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tsawer” but also “tsawwer”, “tsawar”, “tsaouer” and “tsawir”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tsawer” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to imagine, picture”; “to have one's picture taken”: tsewwer in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “imagine, picture”; “photograph, film (you photograph)”: tsawar in Algerian.