fekk فك

Moroccan Darija · verb

“fekk” (فك) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning untie, loosen, undo.

Meanings

1. untie, loosen, undo
2. break up a fight
3. free, get out of trouble

Usage

Fekk is a very common verb in Morocco. It first means to undo something knotted or tied: a rope, a knot, a shoelace. It is also used to separate two people who are fighting (fekkhum, "separate them") and, more broadly, to get someone out of a difficult situation. It belongs to the informal, everyday register. Note: in online writing, the Arabic spelling فك is often used to write fik ("in you, on you") when the yā is omitted. Only context tells the two apart.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fekk” but also “fek”, “fakk”, “fak” and “fik”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “fekk” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to untie, undo (a knot)”; “to remove (a stain)”: fakk in Tunisian.