kharita خريطة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kharita” (خريطة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning map, plan.
Meanings
- map, plan
Usage
Khariṭa refers to a geographical map or a city plan. The word comes from Standard Arabic and is commonly used in darija, especially in "khariṭa dyal lmdina" (city map). A bank card is called lakart or karta, never khariṭa. In everyday speech, many people also say "l'map" or talk about "Google Maps" on the phone. The plural is khraiṭ.
Example
نشوفو فل خريطة.
nchoufo fl khariTa.
“We'll look at the map.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kharita” but also “5arita”, “khari6a” and “kharitta”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch; 6 is emphatic ta (ط).
Type “kharita” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “map, city plan”; “roadmap (figurative)”: 5arita in Tunisian.