tafassil تفاصيل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tafassil” (تفاصيل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning details, specifics.
Meanings
- details, specifics
Usage
tafasil is the plural of tafsil (detail); it is almost always used in the plural. People ask for or give details: "3tini tafasil" (give me details), "ma bghitch ndkhol f tafasil" (I don't want to go into details). The word comes from Standard Arabic and keeps its initial vowel a, but it is perfectly common in speech. It turns up in stories, explanations and negotiations. For the expression "with all the details", say b ttafasil dyalo or b ttafsil.
Example
علاش مابغيتيش تعطيني تفاصيل
3lach mabghitich t3tini tafassil
“Why don't you want to give me details?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tafassil” but also “tafasil”, “tfassil” and “tfsil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tafassil” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “details, particulars”: tafasil in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “details, specifics”: tafasil in Tunisian.