dostouri دستوري
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“dostouri” (دستوري) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning constitutional, relating to the Constitution.
Meanings
- constitutional, relating to the Constitution
- Destourian, supporter of the Destour
Usage
Dostouri comes from dostour, the Constitution. In the sense of "constitutional", it is a term of political and legal vocabulary, heard mostly in the media, in debates and in discussions of current affairs: majlis dostouri, 9anoun dostouri, l'yamin dostouri (the constitutional oath). In Tunisia, the word also refers, as an adjective or a noun, to a supporter of the Destourian movement, which came out of the Destour and the Neo-Destour: howa dostouri men zmen (he has been a Destourian for a long time). Context tells the two senses apart. The feminine is dostouria, the plural dostouria or dasatra.
Example
هاذا قرار موش دستوري.
hedha 9rar mouch dostouri.
“This decision is not constitutional.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “dostouri” but also “destouri”, “dusturi”, “doustouri” and “dosturi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.