noss نص
Tunisian Derja · noun
“noss” (نص) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning half.
Meanings
- half
- middle
Usage
Noss means "half" and goes before the noun without an article: "noss khobza" (half a baguette), "noss se3a" (half an hour). For the time, "w noss" means "and a half" or "half past": "tlatha w noss" (half past three). "Noss nhar" means the middle of the day, that is, noon. It also appears in clothing expressions such as "sabbat noss ga9ba", for a mid-height shoe. Not to be confused with the standard word "nass" (text), which is spelled the same.
Example
اعطيني نص خبزة
a3tini noss khobza
“Give me half a baguette.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “noss” but also “nos”, “nous”, “nss” and “nos9”. 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 “noss” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “half”; “middle”: ness in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “half”; “half-, partly”: nouss in Algerian.