Re: What is a Tunisian Arabic word for "socks"

From Persian gurpa gur "grave" and pa "foot"; engl. greave. AFAIK
Tunisian word is pronounced [jwa:rib] but nsometimes the "j" sounds
indeed like "sh".
Regards
Jamshid


Jerzy Lacina wrote:
I am interested if in Tunisian Arabic the word for "socks" would
be "jawa:rib" or rather "shawa:rib" (opened with soundless [sh])
or maybe there is quite another word there?

Thanks,

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