taxi تاكسي

Tunisian Derja · noun

“taxi” (تاكسي) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning taxi.

Meanings

1. taxi

Usage

Taxi is a fully integrated loanword in Tunisian. It takes an Arabic plural, taxiyet, and a possessive suffix: taxih ("his taxi"). The driver is called taxiste. To flag down a car, you say wa99af taxi or chedd taxi ("take a taxi"). Distinguish the individual taxi, often yellow in cities, from the louage, a shared intercity taxi, and the taxi jama3i, the shared urban or rural taxi. The latter have fixed stops, called m7atta.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “taxi” but also “taksi” and “taxy”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “taxi” on the Arabic keyboard