sella سلة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“sella” (سلة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning basket.
Meanings
- basket
- basketball (in "lo3bet sella")
- wastebasket (in "sellet mohmalet")
Usage
Sella means a basket, especially a woven or open-work container for bread, fruit or laundry. For the large shopping basket, "9offa" is more usual. The word also appears in sports expressions: "lo3bet sella" or "korret sella" mean basketball, although many people simply say "basket". "Sellet mohmalet", the wastepaper basket or bin, comes from the standard register and is often used figuratively to say that something is worthless. The common plural is "slel".
Example
حط الخبز في السلة.
7ott el khobz fi s-sella.
“Put the bread in the basket.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sella” but also “salla”, “sela” and “sala”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.