ميد

Najdi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَيْدَ‎ (bayda). Mentioned as it's colloquial version in medieval Arabic dictionaries. In the second sense probably related to or influenced by Mehri [script needed] (mäd), a future tense and volitional particle. Also found in Razihi اميد‎ (im-mēd), having definite article.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /majd/, /meːd/

Preposition

ميد (mayd)

  1. for, to, up to
    ‏قلت ميد امي نروح السوق‎ ― gilt mēd ummi nrūḥ as-sūg ― I told my mom we're going to the market.
    ‏هذا اللي أنا ميده‎ ― hāḏa lli ana mēdeh ― That's what I mean.
  2. (ʿAsir Province) up to, want to
    ‏أنا ميد أمشي‎ ― ana mēd amši ― I wanna go.
    ‏أنا ميد الكتاب‎ ― ana mēd im-ḵitāb ― I want the book.
    ‏ما انت ميد؟‎‎ ― ma-nta mēd ― What do you want?

Usage notes

In southmost areas of Saudi Arabia (ʿAsir Province, Bani Shehr tribe) it's treated as full synonym of بغى‎ (“to want”), while in general Najdi and Sanaani (the latter uses على ميد (ʕala mayd) and من ميد (min mayd)) it's used synonymously to preposition لِـ‎ (li-) or the Standard Arabic verb قَصَدَ‎ (qaṣada, “to mean, to refer”).

References
  • 2011, “South Arabian and Yemeni Dialects”, in Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics‎:
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