blasa بلاصة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“blasa” (بلاصة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning place, spot.
Meanings
- place, spot
- seat, position
- instead of
Usage
Blasa is the adapted, very common loanword from French "place". It means a spot (blasa mezyena "a nice spot") or a seat or reserved place (fama blasa? "is there room?"). With a suffixed pronoun it means "instead of": blastek (in your place), blasto (in his place). The plural is blayes or blasat. It does not mean a public square in the urban sense; it refers rather to a spot or location. It is used daily and is informal.
Example
لقيت بلاصة باش نركّح الكرهبة
l9it blasa bech nrakka7 el karhba
“I found a spot to park the car.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “blasa” but also “blassa”, “blasset” and “blssa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “blasa” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “place, location”; “room (seat, free space)”: blasa in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “place, spot”; “free space, seat”: blassa in Algerian.