tawsil توصيل
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tawsil” (توصيل) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning delivery.
Meanings
- delivery
- giving someone a ride home
Usage
Tawṣil means "delivery." The word has become very common with online selling in Morocco. It is seen everywhere on social media: "tawṣil mjjani" (free delivery), "kat-diri tawṣil ?" (do you deliver?). The idea of giving someone a ride is expressed rather by the verb wesslo, "he dropped him off." The competing term livraison, borrowed from French, is also used a lot. Tawṣil keeps a neutral, commercial tone.
Example
سلم ختي كديري توصيل
slm khti kdiri tawssil
“Hi sister, do you do delivery?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tawsil” but also “tawssil”, “tousil” and “twsil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tawsil” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “delivery”; “conveying, getting something across”: tawsil in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “receipt, proof of payment”; “delivery”: twsil in Tunisian.