chleuh

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine, uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic, masculine, slur) a German; a kraut

Adj

1. Shilha, Tashelhit
2. (derogatory) German

Concepts

Shilha

Tashelhit

Tachelhit

Sussian

Kraut

Tashelhayt

Tashelheyt

Tachilhit

Tashilheet

Tasoussit

german

🇩🇪

Germanic

kraut

Fritz

Susiua

German-language

Transrhenane

Tashelhit Berber

Tashelhait

Synonyms

tachelhit

fritz

boche

Boche

tasusit

allemand

🇩🇪

fridolin

Allemand

relatif à l’allemand

Translations

تشلحيت

crucco

cruco

Taschelhit

اللهجة تشلحيت

اللهجة السوسية

deutsch

🇩🇪

Boche

taixelhit

deutsches

teutsch

aus Deutschland

deutschsprachlich

deutscher

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃlø/

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic: شلوح

In summary

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic شلوح (šlūḥ), plural of شلح (šilḥ). Moroccan /u/ may have an [ø]-like quality in certain positions.
Among the French military in northern Africa (Bataillon d’Afrique), it came to mean “one who cannot speak French or even Arabic”. It was later applied to German-speakers in eastern France and then, during the Second World War, to Germans at large.