piscine پيسين
Moroccan Darija · noun
“piscine” (پيسين) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning swimming pool.
Meanings
- swimming pool
Usage
Pissin is a very common loanword from French "piscine". It is often preceded by the French article la, frozen in the expression la pissin, or by the Arabic article: l-pissin. The word is feminine. Typical phrases are "mchit l la pissin", "I went to the swimming pool", and "3ewwem f la pissin", "to swim in the pool". It refers to public and private pools alike. For the sea, a different word is used: l-b7er.
Example
لا پيسّين سخون
la pissin s5oun
“The pool is warm.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “piscine” but also “pisin”, “picin” and “pissin”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.