tahlil تحليل
Algerian Darja · noun
“tahlil” (تحليل) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning analysis, reasoned examination.
Meanings
- analysis, reasoned examination
- medical test
Usage
Tahlil comes from Standard Arabic but is in common use in Algeria. In the intellectual sense, it means the analysis of a situation, a match or the news, especially in commentary and debates. In daily life, it very often means medical tests, usually in the plural tahalil: dir tahalil (get tests done), jabou tahalil (they brought back the results). The French word "analyses" is also heard in the same context, sometimes in the same sentence. Neutral register. The plural tahalil in a health context is the most useful usage to remember.
Example
الطبيب قالي روح دير التحاليل.
tbib galli rouh dir tahalil.
“The doctor told me to go and get the tests done.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tahlil” but also “ta7lil”, “tehlil”, “tahalil” and “ta7alil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “tahlil” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “medical test, lab analysis”; “analysis, reasoned examination”: t7lil in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “medical test”; “analysis, study”: ta7lil in Tunisian.