kaghet كاغط
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kaghet” (كاغط) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning paper, sheet of paper.
Meanings
- paper, sheet of paper
- document, official papers
Usage
Kaghet means paper as a material and, more often, a piece or sheet of paper: 3tini chi kaghet ("give me a piece of paper"). In the plural, lkwaghet mostly means "papers" in the administrative sense: ID documents, a file, documents to be provided. For example, wjjed lkwaghet ("get the papers ready"). For a specific sheet, werqa is also used. Note: kaghet does not mean "newspaper". The word is in the everyday register, in speech and in informal writing.
Example
عطيني شي كاغط نكتب فيه النمرة
3tini chi kaghet nkteb fih nnemra
“Give me a piece of paper to write the number on.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kaghet” but also “kaghit”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kaghet” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “paper, sheet”; “official papers, documents”: kaghet in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “paper”; “sheet, scrap of paper”: kaghet in Tunisian.