“Happy New Year!” in Tunisian Arabic

In Tunisian Arabic, “Happy New Year!” is written using the Latin script as:

Bonne année!

Using the Arabic script, it is written as:

!بون أناي

(Editor’s note: Other phrases that are spoken at New Year’s (and can occur at other times of the year are:

“May you be well every year” = Kol 3am w enti b khir / كل عام و انتي بخير

May you be alive and well each year:

• • (sing.) (m) Kol 3am w enti 7ay b khir / كل عام و انتي حي بخير
  • (sing.) (f) Kol 3am w enti 7aya b khir / كل عام و انتي حية بخير
  • (pl.) Kol 3am w enti 7ayin b khir / كل عام و انتي حيين بخير)

Listen to this phrase pronounced (audio)

 

In other Mediterranean languages and dialects

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