mosta9bel مستقبل
Tunisian Derja · noun
“mosta9bel” (مستقبل) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning future.
Meanings
- future
- future (time to come)
Usage
Mosta9bel means the future, often in a personal sense: career, success, stability. One speaks of mosta9bel ewledek, "your children's future", or says that a young person has no mosta9bel in the country. The word belongs to the vocabulary shared with Standard Arabic, but it is fully common in speech. It often comes up in discussions about emigration, studies and marriage. One also says fil mosta9bel, "in the future". In grammar, it also refers to the future tense, in a school context.
Example
او حفيظ على دينك وابني مستقبل ولادك ,
ou 7afidh 3ale dinik wébni mosta9bil wlèdik ,
“And protect your faith, and build your children's future,”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mosta9bel” but also “mosta9bil”, “mostakbel”, “mousta9bel” and “mosta9bal”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “mosta9bel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “future”; “prospects (career, personal)”: mosta9bal in Moroccan.