maztoul مزطول
Algerian Darja · adjective
“maztoul” (مزطول) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning drugged, stoned.
Meanings
- drugged, stoned
- out of it
Usage
Literally, this word describes a person under the effect of cannabis or pills who no longer controls what they say. The register is slang and colloquial. By extension, it is used to mock someone who talks nonsense or seems elsewhere, or a group seen as out of touch with reality. The feminine is mezetla and the plural is mzatel or mezetlin. The related verb is tzetal, "to get stoned". Said to someone, it can sound like a jab.
Example
واش بيك تهدر هكا، راك مزطول ولا واش؟
wach bik tehder haka, rak maztoul wela wach?
“Why are you talking like that, are you stoned or what?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “maztoul” but also “maztol”, “maztole” and “mazetoul”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “maztoul” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “stoned, high on cannabis”; “spaced out, out of it”: mzatoul in Tunisian.