chacha شاشة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chacha” (شاشة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning screen (phone, TV, computer).
Meanings
- screen (phone, TV, computer)
Usage
Chacha refers to the screen of a phone, a television or a computer. The word comes from Standard Arabic and has spread into everyday language, notably among phone repairers: bddel chacha, "change the screen". With the article, it is chchacha. In daily use, it competes with the French loanword likran, "the screen", which is also very common. By extension, chchacha can refer to television itself, especially in media language.
Example
الشاشة ديال التيليفون تهرسات
chchacha dyal tilifoun therrsat
“The phone screen broke.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chacha” but also “shasha” and “chaacha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “chacha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “screen (TV, phone, computer)”: chacha in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “screen (TV, phone, computer)”: chacha in Tunisian.