تاري

Malay

Noun

تاري (plural تاري-تاري or تاري۲, informal 1st possessive تاريکو, 2nd possessive تاريمو, 3rd possessive تاريڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of tari.

North Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

• تاريها (tārīha) (frozen pronoun)
• تابي (tābi)

Etymology

Unknown. Descends from an Arabic أَثَارِي (ʔaṯārī) or perhaps أَثَارِيّ (ʔaṯāriyy), which may be derived from a form similar to Najdi Arabic and Hijazi Arabic إثري (ʔiṯri) and in turn be of the root ء ث ر (ʔ-ṯ-r) — compare Standard Arabic إِثْرَ (ʔiṯra, “as a result of”) — but the semantic development remains a mystery overall.

Other cognates include South Levantine Arabic أتاري (ʔatāri), Egyptian Arabic اتارى (ʔatāri) and اتابى (ʔatābi), Libyan Arabic تاريتا (tārīta), Najdi Arabic أثاري (ʔaṯāri) and أثِر (ʔaṯir), Hijazi Arabic أثاري (ʔatāri) and أثري (ʔatri), Gulf Arabic أثاري (ʔaṯāri) and أذاري (ʔaḏāri), Iraqi Arabic ثاري (ṯāri), and a form أفابي (ʔafābi) found in North Africa.

Particle

تاري • (tāri)

1. (exclamative) that's why, so

   يارا رسبت بالإمتحان
   أتاري رجعت من المدرسة عم تبكي هديك اليوم؟

   —yāra rasabit bi l-ʔimtiḥān
   —ʔatāri rijʕit mnel-madrase ʕam tibki hadīk el-yōm?

   —Yara failed the exam.
   —So that's why she came home from school crying that day?

2. it seems, it looks like, it should be

   تاريك فهيم ― tārik fahīm ― So, you must be clever?

   تاري انت فهيم ― tāri inte fahīm ― So, you must be clever?

Synonyms

• اجرمن عن
• عشان هيك