wa9t وقت

Tunisian Derja · noun

“wa9t” (وقت) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning time, moment.

Meanings

1. time, moment
2. time of (prayer, meal)
3. when (wa9t elli)

Usage

Wa9t denotes time as duration: "5dhé barcha wa9t" (it took a lot of time). It also denotes a specific moment: "fi kol wa9t" (at any time). Followed by a noun, it indicates the time for something: "wa9t es-sla" (prayer time), "wa9t el 3cha" (dinner time). With elli, it becomes a temporal conjunction: "wa9t elli jit" (when I came), often written joined, wa9telli. "Wa9tha" means "at that moment". To ask what time it is, wa9t is not used alone; say "9addech el wa9t?" or "9addech es-sa3a?".

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wa9t” but also “waqt”, “wakt”, “wa9te”, “wa9et” and “wa9ta”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “wa9t” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “time, moment”; “appointed time”: wa9t in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “time”; “moment”: wa9t in Algerian.

How to say “time” in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian