iflas افلاس
Tunisian Derja · noun
“iflas” (افلاس) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning bankruptcy.
Meanings
- bankruptcy
- total failure, uselessness (informal)
Usage
Iflès refers to the bankruptcy of a company or a state. It is often heard in economic and political debates, for example el blad mechya lel iflès, "the country is going bankrupt." For a person with no money, one says rather mfalles, "broke," and the verb is falles, "to go bankrupt, to ruin oneself." By informal extension, iflès also describes situations or people judged worthless, of no value. Tunisians also widely use the French word "faillite."
Example
الشركة وصلت للافلاس
charika woslet lel iflès
“The company has gone bankrupt.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “iflas” but also “eflas”, “iflès” and “iflass”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “iflas” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “bankruptcy (of a company)”; “financial ruin”: iflas in Moroccan.