تاري
North Levantine Arabic
Etymology
Unknown. Descends from an Arabic أَثَارِي (ʾaṯārī) or perhaps أَثَارِيّ (ʾaṯāriyy), which may be derived from a form similar to Najdi Arabic and Hijazi Arabic إثري (ʾiṯri) and in turn be of the root ء ث ر (ʾ-ṯ-r) — compare Standard Arabic إِثْرَ (ʾiṯra, “as a result of”) — but the semantic development remains a mystery overall.
Other cognates include South Levantine Arabic أتاري (ʾatāri), Egyptian Arabic اتارى (ʾatāri) and اتابى (ʾatābi), Libyan Arabic تاريتا (tārīta), Najdi Arabic and Hijazi Arabic أثِر (ʾaṯir) and أثري (ʾaṯri), Gulf Arabic أثاري (ʾaṯāri) and أذاري (ʾaḏāri), Iraqi Arabic ثاري (ṯāri), and a form أفابي (ʾafābi) found in North Africa.
Particle
تاري (tāri)
- (exclamative) that's why, so
- يارا رسبت بالإمتحان
أتاري رجعت من المدرسة عم تبكي هديك اليوم؟- —Yāra rasabit bi l-ʾimtiḥān
—ʾatāri rijʿit mnel-madrase ʿam tibki hadīk el-yōm? - —Yara failed the exam.
—So that's why she came home from school crying that day?
- —Yāra rasabit bi l-ʾimtiḥān
- it seems, it looks like, it should be
- تاريك فهيم or تاري انت فهيم
- Tārik fahīm or Tāri inte fahīm
- So, you must be clever?
Alternative forms
- تاريها (tārīha) (frozen pronoun)
- تابي (tābi)
Synonyms
- اجرمن عن
- عشان هيك