tleq طلق

Algerian Darja · verb

“tleq” (طلق) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to let go, release, free.

Meanings

1. to let go, release, free
2. to release, drop (video, song)
3. to divorce, repudiate (form tellaq)

Usage

Tleq (imperfect yetleq) means to let go or release: "tleq yeddi", "tleq el kelb". Among young people, it is commonly used for the release of content: "tleq vidéo jdida" (he released a new video). For the sense of divorcing, the doubled-consonant form tellaq is used, as is the noun tlaq (divorce); the two are often confused in writing, where both are spelled the same without vowels. The reflexive form ttleq means "to relax" or "to free oneself". The register is neutral to informal.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tleq” but also “tla9”, “tlaq”, “tleg” and “tellaq”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “tleq” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to let go, to release”; “to divorce, to repudiate”: tle9 in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to divorce, repudiate (one's wife)”; “to let go, release”: tallaq in Tunisian.