lsen لسان
Tunisian Derja · noun
“lsen” (لسان) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning tongue (organ).
Meanings
- tongue (organ)
- tongue (of a shoe)
- language, way of speaking
Usage
Lsen means the tongue as an organ. It appears in many expressions about speech: lsenou twil (he has a loose tongue, he is insolent), 7keh lsenek (you said it yourself), rabbi y7afedh lsenek. By analogy it is also used for tongue-shaped objects: lsen es-sabbat (the tongue of the shoe), lsen 3asfour ("bird's tongue" pasta, widely used in soup). To talk about a language such as French or Arabic, one says lougha instead. The plural is lsoun or elsna.
Example
اي واللي حكاه لسانك ..
eyy welli 7keh lsenek ..
“Yes, and it's what your own tongue said..”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “lsen” but also “lssen”, “lsan”, “elsen” and “lisen”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “lsen” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “tongue (organ)”; “language, way of speaking”: lsan in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “tongue (organ)”; “speech, way of speaking”: lsan in Algerian.