جِدّة — "grandmother" in Egyptian Arabic
جِدّة
gídda
grandmother
- Topic
- family
- Seen in
- 2 of our stories
جِدّة in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
الجدة مبسوطة والكل بياكل
El gedda mabsoota w el kol bya'kol.
The grandmother is happy and everyone is eating.
الجدة فضلت تسأل عن الاسعار وتتكلم مع البياعين كتير وتقول اهلا بيكي لكل ست بتقابلها
El-gedda faddalet tes'al 'an el-as'ar we tetkallem ma' el-bayya'een kiteer we te'ul "Ahlan beeki" le koll sett bet'abelha
The grandmother kept asking about prices and talking a lot with the sellers, saying "Ahlan beeki" to every woman she met
from A Trip to the Market