iflas إفلاس
Moroccan Darija · noun
“iflas” (إفلاس) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning bankruptcy (of a company).
Meanings
- bankruptcy (of a company)
- financial ruin
Usage
Iflas refers to bankruptcy, in both the legal and the figurative sense. It is heard mostly about companies, in the media or in economic discussions: "charika dkhlat f l-iflas", the company went bankrupt; "3lnat l-iflas", it declared bankruptcy. In colloquial language, for a person with no money, people rather use the adjective mfelles, "broke", and the verb tfelles or fless, "to end up ruined". These words are more common in speech than the noun iflas, which keeps a somewhat formal tone.
Example
الشركة ديالو دخلات فالإفلاس.
charika dyalo dkhlat f l'iflas.
“His company went bankrupt.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “iflas” but also “eflas”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “iflas” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “bankruptcy”; “total failure, uselessness (informal)”: iflas in Tunisian.