tla3 طلع
Moroccan Darija · verb
“tla3” (طلع) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to go up, climb.
Meanings
- to go up, climb
- to turn out to be
- to cost, come to (a price)
Usage
Tla3 is the usual verb for "to go up": tla3 l-ṭ-ṭabaq (go upstairs), tla3 f t-tobis (get on the bus). With an adjective or a noun, it means "to turn out, end up being": tla3 3yyan (it turned out to be rubbish), tla3 ḥmar. Followed by b and an amount, it indicates a price: tla3 b 20 dh (it cost me twenty dirhams). Tla3 lih d-dem means "to get angry". The form with a doubled consonant, tlle3, is transitive: "to bring up, to take something up". The opposite is hbet (to go down). Pitfall: tla3 never means "to go out", which is khrej.
Example
طلع للسطح يجيب الصابون
tla3 l-sta7 yjib s-sabon
“He went up to the roof to get the soap.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanTl3 | tl3t | |
| nta (you, m.) | kaTTl3 | tl3ti | Tl3 |
| nti (you, f.) | kaTTl3i | tl3ti | Tl3i |
| howa (he) | kayTl3 | tl3 | |
| hiya (she) | kaTTl3 | tl3at | |
| 7na (we) | kanTl3o | tl3na | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | kaTTl3o | tl3to | Tl3o |
| homa (they) | kayTl3o | tl3o |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tla3” but also “tl3”, “tle3”, “tal3”, “tela3” and “tlle3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “tla3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to go up, to climb”; “to rise (prices, morale)”: tla3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to go up, climb”; “to turn out to be”: tla3 in Tunisian.