tansio طانصيو
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tansio” (طانصيو) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning blood pressure, hypertension.
Meanings
- blood pressure, hypertension
- stress, irritability
Usage
Tansio is a borrowing adapted from French "tension". It is very common in Morocco. In its primary sense it means blood pressure, most often high blood pressure: 3ndo tansio, "he has high blood pressure". For pressure that is too high, one says tansio tal3a, and for pressure that is too low, tansio habta. By extension, the word means stress or getting worked up: tal3 lih tansio, "he got worked up". Be careful not to use it for political tension or tension between people: other expressions are used then.
Example
مي عندها الطانصيو وخاصها الدوا كل نهار.
mmi 3ndha t-tansio w khaSSha ddwa kol nhar.
“My mother has high blood pressure and has to take her medicine every day.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tansio” but also “tonsio” and “tansyo”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.