gazouz قازوز
Tunisian Derja · noun
“gazouz” (قازوز) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning soft drink, soda.
Meanings
- soft drink, soda
- fizzy lemonade
Usage
Gazouz refers to any sweetened fizzy drink: soda, lemonade, local or international brand drinks. It is a very common word, informal and neutral, heard at home, in cafés or at the grocer's. The singular gazouza refers to a bottle or can ("a gazouza"). Gazouz is used as a mass noun, for the drink in general. It is pronounced with a hard g, even though Arabic often writes it with qaf. It is readily associated with celebrations, ceremonial meals and children.
Example
جيبلي قازوزة باردة
jibli gazouza barda
“Bring me a cold soda.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “gazouz” but also “gazouza”, “gazoz”, “9azouz” and “qazouz”. 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 “gazouz” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “fizzy drink, soda”; “lemonade”: gazouz in Algerian.