bosta بوسطة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“bosta” (بوسطة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning post office.
Meanings
- post office
Usage
Graphic variant of boSTa, pronounced with an emphatic s. The word comes from Spanish or Italian. It is used with the article, lboSTa, to talk about the post office or the postal service in general. Common expressions are mchit l lboSTa ("I went to the post office") and sift b lboSTa ("to send by post"). The official term in standard Arabic is barid, but in speech people say boSTa instead.
Example
غادي نمشي للبوسطة نصيفط واحد البرية
ghadi nmchi l lbosta nsifet wahed lbriya
“I'm going to the post office to send a letter.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “bosta” but also “bousta”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “bosta” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “post office, postal service”; “mail, post”: bousta in Tunisian.