kasit كاسيط
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kasit” (كاسيط) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning audio or video cassette.
Meanings
- audio or video cassette
Usage
Kasit is a variant of kasita, an adapted borrowing of French "cassette". The form in -a is the more widespread, but kasit is also heard, notably among some older speakers. The word mainly refers to audio cassettes of music or Quran that people listened to in the car or on the cassette player, and to video cassettes. Today it evokes a bygone era. The usual plural is kasitat. For an English speaker, the word is transparent. Its gender follows its form: kasita is feminine.
Example
عندي كاسيط قديم ديال ناس الغيوان
3ndi kasit 9dim dyal nass lghiwane
“I have an old Nass El Ghiwane cassette.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kasit” but also “kassit”, “kaset” and “kasita”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.