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Tunisian

Tunisian

1 5.3
About the city of Tunis or its people
  • adjective
  • /tuˈnɪʒən/
translation icon : de Túnez
  • The group will also lay the foundation stone for a new hospital to be named after the Tunisian capital.

Examples

  • Here we lunched on olives, cheese, dates, and figs, all washed down with some delightful Tunisian rosé wine.

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  • However, he was killed on April 16, 1988, when a group of unidentified gunmen stormed his villa in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, before managing to slip away.

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  • Fiery spices and fresh veggies make Tunisian food a tasty choice for casual get-togethers.

  • Here we lunched on olives, cheese, dates, and figs, all washed down with some delightful Tunisian rosé wine.

  • Many people replaced their profile pictures with red Tunisian flags.

Compounds

Tunisian dinar
3.7

Official money used in Tunisia

Tunisian dirham
  • Archaic
9.5

A former unit of money in Tunisia equal to one hundredth of a dinar

Surface Forms

Tunisian positive

Morphology

Tunisian = Tunis (transparent) = Tunis + ian

Formed by adding the productive adjectival/demonym suffix '-ian' to the place name 'Tunis', so the relation to the city/country is directly inferable.

Etymology

Tunisian comes from the city name Tunis plus the ending -ian, which means 'from' or 'relating to'. So something called Tunisian is from the city of Tunis or belongs to its residents.