tla9 طلاق
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tla9” (طلاق) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning divorce.
Meanings
- divorce
- repudiation
Usage
Tlaq means divorce, both in the legal sense and in everyday speech. The usual phrases are tleb t-tlaq, "to ask for a divorce", and 3tah t-tlaq or 3tat t-tlaq, "he or she granted the divorce". The corresponding verb is tellaq, "to divorce someone"; a divorced woman is called mtelqa. The subject is sensitive within families, and people often speak of it indirectly, for example by saying tferqu, "they separated".
Example
طلبات الطلاق من راجلها
tlbat t-tlaq men rajelha
“She asked her husband for a divorce.”
Forms
| plural | Tla9at |
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Forms as recorded in DODa, in its spelling.
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tla9” but also “tlaq”, “tala9” and “tlak”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “tla9” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “divorce”; “repudiation”: tla9 in Tunisian.