khizou خيزو
Moroccan Darija · noun
“khizou” (خيزو) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning carrot(s).
Meanings
- carrot(s)
Usage
Khizzou is the common word for carrot in Morocco. It is a collective noun: it refers to carrots in general (chrit khizzou, "I bought carrots"). For a single carrot, use the unit noun khizzwa. It is a staple vegetable of Moroccan cooking: it goes into tajine, couscous and salads, such as carrot salad with cumin. The word is purely dialectal and does not appear in Standard Arabic.
Example
حسن تعطيهم خيزو
7san t3tihom khizo
“It's better to give them carrots.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khizou” but also “khizzou”, “5izou”, “khizo”, “khizzo” and “5izo”. 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.