kridi كريدي
Algerian Darja · noun
“kridi” (كريدي) is a noun in Algerian Darja meaning credit, buying on credit.
Meanings
- credit, buying on credit
- debt, tab at a shop
- bank loan
Usage
Kridi is borrowed from French "crédit". It mainly refers to buying on credit from the neighbourhood shopkeeper: chra b el kridi (he bought on credit). A debt at the grocer's is called kridi 3and el hanout. The word is also used for a bank loan (dar kridi, he took out a loan). With the verb khalles (to pay), it means paying off a debt. On shop fronts, the sign el kridi memnou3 (no credit) is proverbial. Phone credit is more usually called flexy or recharge.
Example
شريت الفريجيدار بالكريدي.
chrit el frigidaire b el kridi.
“I bought the fridge on credit.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kridi” but also “credi”, “kredi”, “crédit” and “kriddi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kridi” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “credit, bank loan”; “debt, buying on credit”: kridi in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “credit, bank loan”; “buying on credit, tab”: kridi in Tunisian.