mil ميل
Tunisian Derja · noun
“mil” (ميل) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning mile (unit of distance).
Meanings
- mile (unit of distance)
Usage
Mil means the mile, the Anglo-Saxon unit of length. It is used mainly when talking about foreign countries, translated films or stories, or at sea for the nautical mile. For everyday distances, people almost always count in kilometres (kilou, kilouмètr). The word stays invariable after a number: one says 3icharin mil (twenty miles). To locate a place, it is used with 3la bo3d (at a distance of) or ba3d (after). Pitfall: it is not the number "thousand", which is alf.
Example
الدار متاعو على بعد ميل من البحر.
eddar mte3ou 3la bo3d mil mel b7ar.
“His house is a mile from the sea.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mil” but also “miil”, “meel” and “mile”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.