“Hail” in Tunisian Arabic

In Tunisian Arabic, “Hail“ (the noun, as in the weather feature) is written using the Latin script as:

(m) Tabrouri

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

تبروري (m)

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Examples in sentences or statements

 
“That is hail!”

Hedheka tabrouri!

!هذاكا تبروري

 
“Have you ever seen hail before?”

3omrek choft tabrouri 9bal?

عمرك شفت تبروري قبل؟

 
“The mountains get hail sometimes.”

El jboulet sa3at ysob fihom el tabrouri.

.الجبولات ساعات يصب فيهم التبروري

 
“I’ve never seen hail in person before.”

3omri machoft tabrouri 9bal.

.عمري مشفت تبروري قبل

 
“Those balls on the ground are hail.”

El kwer hedhoukom eli fel 9a3 tabrouri.

.الكور هذوكم الّي في القعّ تبروري