kaghet كاغط
Algerian Darja · noun
“kaghet” (كاغط) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning paper, sheet.
Meanings
- paper, sheet
- official papers, documents
Usage
Kaghet refers to paper or a sheet of paper. In the plural, lekwaghet, it very often takes the sense of administrative "papers": identity documents, files, official documents. One says, for example, dir lekwaghet (to do one's paperwork) or wach jebt lekwaghet? (did you bring the documents?). In some regions it is pronounced karet, plural kwaret. Be careful not to confuse it with karta, which means a card. The French word papier is also used in competition with it. Common, colloquial register.
Example
عطيني كاغط باش نكتب
3tini kaghet bach nekteb
“Give me a sheet of paper so I can write.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kaghet” but also “karet”, “caghet”, “kaghte”, “caghètt” and “carètt”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kaghet” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “paper, sheet of paper”; “document, official papers”: kaghet in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “paper”; “sheet, scrap of paper”: kaghet in Tunisian.