basbori باسبوري

Tunisian Derja · noun

“basbori” (باسبوري) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning my passport.

Meanings

1. my passport

Usage

Basbori is the possessive form of basbor ("passport") with the suffix -i ("my"). Basbor is a loanword adapted from French: the p becomes b, as often in derja. The other forms are basbork ("your passport") and basboru ("his/her passport"). One also says el basbor mte3i. The word is very common at the airport, in administrative offices and in conversations about visas. The standard term jawaz safar is found mostly in official writing.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “basbori” but also “passpori” and “basbouri”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “basbori” on the Arabic keyboard