ghsil غسيل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ghsil” (غسيل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning washing, act of washing.
Meanings
- washing, act of washing
- laundry, clothes to wash
Usage
Ghsil is the verbal noun of ghsel, "to wash". It refers to the act of washing in general: clothes, dishes, the body, a car. The most frequent everyday sense is laundry. One says lghsil dyal lhwayej for washing clothes, and makina d lghsil for the washing machine. Depending on the context, lghsil can also refer to the laundry itself, to be washed or drying. The word belongs to the common, neutral register. Do not confuse it with the conjugated verb ghsel or with the adjective mghsoul, "washed".
Example
اليوم نهار الغسيل، غادي نغسل الحوايج كاملين.
lyoum nhar lghsil, ghadi nghsel lhwayej kamlin.
“Today is laundry day: I'm going to wash all the clothes.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghsil” but also “ghassil”, “8sil” and “ghsel”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “ghsil” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “washing, cleaning”; “laundry, clothes to wash”: ghsil in Tunisian.