telfaza تلفزة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“telfaza” (تلفزة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning television, TV set.
Meanings
- television, TV set
- television channel
Usage
Tlfza is a variant of tlfaza, with the same meaning. It is a feminine noun that refers to the TV set or to television in general. It is used with the verbs ch3el ("to turn on"), tfa ("to go off") and tferrej f ("to watch"). It also appears in the name of the public channel, known as at-tlfza al-maghribiya, which belongs to a more formal register. In conversation, the form tlfaza and the loanword tilifizyon are at least as frequent. The article assimilates to the initial t: t-tlfza.
Example
تلفزة باتت لليل كامل و هيا شاعلا
telfaza batet lil kaml w hiya cha3la
“The TV stayed on all night long.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “telfaza” but also “tlfza”, “telfza”, “tilfaza” and “tlfaza”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “telfaza” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “television set”; “television (medium, channels)”: talfza in Tunisian.