tkhalass تخلص

Algerian Darja · verb

“tkhalass” (تخلص) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to get paid, receive one's salary.

Meanings

1. to get paid, receive one's salary
2. to get rid of

Usage

In Algeria, tkhalles is mostly heard in the sense of "to be paid", the passive of khalles (to pay). Tkhallest? means "were you paid?", and nkhalles ma nkhalles depends on context: the vocalization and form distinguish "to pay" (khalles) from "to be paid" (tkhalles), a pitfall in writing where the two are often confused. It is used for a salary, a bonus or other pay: tkhallesna l-yom (we got paid today). The sense "to get rid of" (tkhallas men), inherited from standard Arabic, exists but is rarer and more formal; people then often prefer to say "fekk rouhou men".

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tkhalass” but also “tkhles”, “tkhalles”, “tkhless” and “t5alas”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.

Type “tkhalass” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to get paid, receive one's salary”; “to get rid of”: tkhelles in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “you pay; to pay”; “to get paid”: tkhalles in Tunisian.