fettech فتش
Moroccan Darija · verb
“fettech” (فتش) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to look for, to seek.
Meanings
- to look for, to seek
- to search (a bag, a person)
Usage
Fetteš is the usual verb for "to look for" in Moroccan Arabic. It is used daily for a lost object, a job or a person. It is often built with the preposition 3la: fetteš 3la l-khedma, "to look for work". Without a preposition, it rather means "to search": la police fetteš-ha, "the police searched her". In the present tense, one says kanfetteš; in the imperative, fetteš. The use of 3la is systematic in the sense of looking for something you have not yet found.
Example
كنفتش على السوارت ديال الطوموبيل.
kanfettech 3la swart dyal tomobil.
“I'm looking for the car keys.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fettech” but also “fetech”, “fatech” and “fattach”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.