kasita كاسيطا
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kasita” (كاسيطا) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning audio or video cassette.
Meanings
- audio or video cassette
Usage
Kasita is the adapted borrowing of French "cassette". It is the most common form in Morocco. The word is feminine, with the plural kasitat. It refers to the audio cassette: music, chaâbi, Quran, family recordings. It also refers to the video cassette, which used to be rented at the video club. People say dwer lkasita (turn the cassette over) or rjje3 lkasita (rewind). The word belongs to a vanishing usage, but everyone understands it. It is not used for digital media.
Example
دور الكاسيطا للجيهة الأخرى
dwer lkasita lljiha lokhra
“Turn the cassette over to the other side.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kasita” but also “kassita”, “casita” and “kasseta”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.