fsal فصل

Tunisian Derja · verb

“fsal” (فصل) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to separate, to settle.

Meanings

1. to separate, to settle
2. article (of a law or text)
3. season

Usage

As a verb, fsal means "to separate", for example two people who are fighting: fsal binéthom. It is also used for "settling" a question or a dispute. The intensive form fassel means "to detail, to explain point by point", and, at the tailor's, "to cut a garment". As a noun, fasl means in Tunisia an article of a law or of the Constitution, for example el fasl tmanin. It also means a season, with the plural fsoul. Context resolves the ambiguity. The legal sense belongs to a formal register and often comes up in the media.

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fsal” but also “fasl”, “fassel”, “fsel” and “fassil”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “fsal” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “season of the year”; “chapter, article”: fsel in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “season of the year”; “school term”: fasl in Algerian.