wadhifa وظيفة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“wadhifa” (وظيفة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning job, post, especially in the administration.
Meanings
- job, post, especially in the administration
- function, role
Usage
A word of standard Arabic origin, common in Tunisia in a somewhat formal register: media, debates, administration. The expression wadhifa 3oumoumiya refers to the civil service or a civil servant post, highly sought after. In everyday speech, for work in general, people rather say khedma; wadhifa evokes a stable, official post. The plural is wadhayef. The second sense, "function" in the sense of the role of an organ or element, belongs mainly to school and technical language. Pitfall: wadhifa does not mean "homework", which is rather called devoir or wejeb.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “wadhifa” but also “wadifa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “wadhifa” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “job, steady position”; “civil service post”: wadifa in Moroccan.