falso فالصو
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“falso” (فالصو) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning fake, counterfeit.
Meanings
- fake, counterfeit
- two-faced, unreliable (person)
Usage
Falso is a well-integrated loanword in derja, which generally does not change for gender or number. It describes a counterfeit or poor-quality object, such as a piece of jewelry, a watch or brand-name clothes. It is also applied to people, in a colloquial and often pejorative register: a falso person is hypocritical, a liar or unreliable. In this sense it is also used as a noun, for example in mech m3a falso. It is the opposite of original or asli.
Example
الساعة هاذي فالصو موش أصلية
essa3a hedhi falso mouch asliya
“This watch is a fake, not a real one.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “falso” but also “falsou” and “fal9o”. 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 “falso” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “fake, counterfeit, imitation”; “(person) unreliable, two-faced”: falso in Algerian.