slee7 سلاح
Tunisian Derja · noun
“slee7” (سلاح) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning weapon.
Meanings
- weapon
- firearm
- asset, means (figurative)
Usage
Slee7 refers to a weapon, most often a firearm, in news reports about crime, police or the army. People say chadd slee7, "to hold a weapon", and 3ammar es-slee7, "to load the weapon". The word also works as a collective: "weapons". Figuratively, it refers to an asset or a means of action, for example el-9raya slee7, "education is a weapon". For a specific weapon, a specialized term is preferred, such as moukahla, "rifle", or a word borrowed from French.
Example
البوليس لقى عندو سلاح في الكرهبة.
el boulis l9a 3andou slee7 fel karhba.
“The police found a weapon in his car.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “slee7” but also “sle7”, “slah”, “sleh” and “sleeh”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “slee7” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “weapon”: sla7 in Moroccan.