frez فراز
Tunisian Derja · noun
“frez” (فراز) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning strawberry, strawberries.
Meanings
- strawberry, strawberries
- strawberry flavour (ice cream, juice)
Usage
A loan from French, pronounced frez and fully adapted: it is the usual word for strawberry in Tunisia. It is most often used as a collective ("strawberries"): chrit frez, I bought strawberries. It is also heard for a flavour, in a juice, a milkshake or an ice cream: jus frez, glace frez. It takes no plural in ordinary usage. It is found at the fruit seller's as well as in cafés and pastry shops, at all registers.
Example
الفراز غالي برشا هالعام.
el frez ghali barcha hal3am.
“Strawberries are very expensive this year.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “frez” but also “fraz”, “frèz” and “fraiz”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.