“Olive”, “Olives” in Tunisian Arabic

In Tunisian Arabic, “Olive” (the noun, as in the fruit) is written using the Latin script as:

(f) Zitouna

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

 زيتونة (f)

In Tunisian Arabic, “Olives” (the noun) is written using the Latin script as:

Zitoun

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

زيتون

Listen to these two words pronounced (audio)

 

Examples in sentences or statements

 
“I feel like eating some olives!”

N7eb nekel chwaya zitoun!

!نحب ناكل شوية زيتون

 
“Do you want green or black olives?”

T7eb zitoun akhdhar wala ak7al?

تحب زيتون أخضر ولا أكحل؟

 
“There is an olive under the olive tree!”

Famma zitouna ta7t chejret ezitoun!

!فمّا زيتونة تحت شجرة الزيتون

 
(at a store) “10 kgs of olives, please.”

3achra kilou zitoun, y3aychek.

.عشرة كيلو زيتون، يعيشك

 
“These olives taste great!”

Ezitoun hedha mat3mou bnin barsha!

!الزيتون هذا مطعمو بنين برشا

 

In other Mediterranean languages and dialects

“Olive”, “Olives” in Egyptian Arabic

“Olive”, “Olives” in Lebanese Arabic