byasa بياسة

Moroccan Darija · noun

“byasa” (بياسة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning spare part.

Meanings

1. spare part
2. piece, component of a whole

Usage

Byasa mainly means a spare part: for a car, a motorbike or a household appliance. The word is very common among mechanics and in parts shops. The plural is byasat. For example, one says byasa originale or byasa d l-occasion. By extension, it can refer to a piece or component of a whole. Note: it does not mean a room in a house, which is bit. It is not used for a coin either. The pronunciation pyasa, with a p, is also heard.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “byasa” but also “biasa”, “piasa”, “byassa” and “pyasa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “byasa” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “remarkable person or thing; a phenomenon”; “piece of cloth; patch”: byasa in Algerian.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “piece, unit (of a set)”; “spare part”: byesa in Tunisian.