ghalla غلة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“ghalla” (غلة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning fruit.
Meanings
- fruit
- harvest
Usage
Ghalla is the Tunisian word for "fruit" or "fruits". It replaces fakiha, which belongs to Standard Arabic. It is often used as a collective: nechri ghalla, "I'm buying fruit". The plural ghlel refers to fruits in general, or to different kinds of fruit. To speak of a single fruit, one usually names it, or says 7abba. The word appears in common expressions: 3asir ghalla, "fruit juice", and souk el ghalla, "the fruit market". In an agricultural context, the word can also mean the harvest, as in ghallet ezzitoun, "the olive harvest".
Example
كول شويّة غلّة بعد الماكلة
koul chwaya ghalla ba3d el mekla
“Eat some fruit after the meal.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghalla” but also “8alla”, “ghala”, “ghella” and “8ala”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.