ftour فطور

Moroccan Darija · noun

“ftour” (فطور) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning breakfast.

Meanings

1. breakfast
2. meal that breaks the fast

Usage

Ftour is the ordinary word for breakfast: one says "ftert" ("I had breakfast") and "kayn chi ftour?". During Ramadan, ftour refers to the meal eaten at sunset to break the fast. This meal often includes harira, dates and chebakia. Context resolves the ambiguity: in the middle of Ramadan, "waqt ftour" refers to the time of breaking the fast, not the morning. The related verb is ftar / yftar. The word is also used for a breakfast eaten in a group, for example in a café.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ftour” but also “ftor” and “f6our”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 6 is emphatic ta (ط).

Type “ftour” on the Arabic keyboard

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “lunch, midday meal”; “meal breaking the fast”: ftour in Tunisian.