9res قرص

Moroccan Darija · verb

“9res” (قرص) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to pinch (with the fingers).

Meanings

1. to pinch (with the fingers)

Usage

9res means "to pinch" with the fingers. It is a familiar gesture, common between children or to wake someone up. It is conjugated regularly and is most often used with a suffixed pronoun: 9resni ("he pinched me"), ma t9resnich ("don't pinch me"). The noun of action is 9ersa, "a pinch". Note: the same Arabic spelling can also be read 9ors, "disc" or "tablet". This sense comes from Standard Arabic and is rare in speech, where people rather say disk or kina. Only context decides between the two readings.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “9res” but also “9ress”, “qres”, “9ers” and “9ras”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “9res” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to pinch”; “to sting, to bite (insect)”: 9ras in Tunisian.