kasrona كسرونة
Algerian Darja · noun
“kasrona” (كسرونة) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning long-handled saucepan.
Meanings
- long-handled saucepan
Usage
Kasrona is an adapted loanword from French "casserole". The word refers to the metal pan with a single long handle, used to heat milk or make coffee. It is a word of domestic life, very common in Algerian kitchens. It does not refer to the two-handled cooking pot, called ṭanjra or qedra. The most commonly heard plural is kasronat. Note: the French colloquial sense of "casseroles", meaning compromising baggage from one's past, does not exist in darja.
Example
سخني الحليب في الكسرونة.
sakhni le7lib fel kasrona.
“Heat the milk in the saucepan.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kasrona” but also “cassrona”, “kasrouna”, “casrona” and “kassrona”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kasrona” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “saucepan, cooking pot”: kessrona in Moroccan.