chklat شكلاط
Moroccan Darija · noun
“chklat” (شكلاط) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning chocolate.
Meanings
- chocolate
Usage
Chklat, or chocolat depending on the speaker, is a borrowing from French and is in completely common use. It refers to chocolate as a bar, as a sweet or as a flavour: kikat chklat, "chocolate cake", 7lib b chklat, "chocolate milk". The word is masculine and has no plural when used for the substance. For a single square or sweet, one rather says wa7ed l7ebba dyal chklat. Pronunciation varies: some keep a sound close to French, others say cheklat.
Example
داك شكلاط غزال
dak chklaT ghzal
“That chocolate is good.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “chklat” but also “choklat”, “cheklat”, “chocolat”, “chkolat” and “chchklat”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.