“Flower”, “Flowers” in Tunisian Arabic

In Tunisian Arabic, “Flower” is written using the Latin script as:

(f) Nawara

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

نوّارة (f)

In Tunisian Arabic, “Flowers” is written using the Latin script as:

Nawarat

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

نوّارات

(Editor’s note: In Tunisian Arabic, other words that mean “Flower” and “Flowers” are: (singular) (f) Warda / وردة (plural) Ward / ورر. These two words are based on Standard Arabic (Fos7a / فصحى).)
 

Listen to these two words pronounced (audio)

 

Examples in sentences or statements

 
“Beautiful flowers!”

Ma7lehom el nawarat!

!محلاهم النوّارات

 
“Those are beautiful flowers!”

Hedhom nawarat ma7lehom!

!هاذم النوّارات محلاهم

 
“I’m going to smell the flower.”

Bch nchem el nawara.

.بش نشم النوّارة

 
“I watered the flowers yesterday.”

S9it el nawarat emes.

.سقيت النوّارات امس

 
“The flowers have bloomed.”

El nawarat etfat7ou.

.النوّارات تفتحوا

 

These words in other Arabic dialects

“Flower”, “Flowers” in Lebanese Arabic