ghaz غاز
Tunisian Derja · noun
“ghaz” (غاز) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning cooking gas, gas stove.
Meanings
- cooking gas, gas stove
- natural gas, energy resource
- gas cylinder
Usage
Gaz is used mainly for household gas, from the stove or the cylinder. You say 7ell el gaz to turn on the gas and sakker el gaz to turn it off. At home, the word can also mean the stove itself. In the media and in political or economic discussions, you also hear the pronunciation ghaz, closer to Standard Arabic, for natural gas and energy contracts. The word is masculine and almost always used with the article: el gaz.
Example
سكّر الغاز قبل ما تخرج
sakker el gaz 9bal ma tokhrej
“Turn off the gas before you go out.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, it is written “ghaz”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.