esm اسم
Tunisian Derja · noun
“esm” (اسم) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning name, first name.
Meanings
- name, first name
- reputation, renown
Usage
Esm means the name of a person, place or thing. It is almost always used with a suffixed pronoun: esmi "my name", esmek "your name", esmou "his name". To ask someone what their name is, you say chnouwa esmek ?; to say what someone is called, you say esmou Ahmed, "his name is Ahmed". There is no verb "to be called" in this usage. After the conjunction w, the initial e often disappears: wesmou. The plural is asemi. In administrative language, you also find esm w la9ab, "first name and surname".
Example
موجود واسمه سلطان
Mawjoud wessmou soltan
“He exists, and his name is Soltan.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “esm” but also “ism”, “isem”, “esem” and “issm”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.