khodra خضرة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“khodra” (خضرة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning vegetables.
Meanings
- vegetables
- greenery, vegetation
Usage
Khodra is a collective noun meaning vegetables in general. It takes feminine singular agreement: "lkhodra ghalya", the vegetables are expensive. It is very common in market and kitchen vocabulary: "couscous b sb3 khodrat", couscous with seven vegetables, where the plural khodrat is used. The word can also refer to the greenery of a landscape. Do not confuse it with khedra, the feminine of khder (green): only the vowel changes. The greengrocer is called kheddar.
Example
شريت الخضرة من السوق
chrit lkhodra mn ssouq
“I bought the vegetables at the market.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khodra” but also “khdra” and “5odra”. 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.
Type “khodra” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “vegetables”; “produce (market fruit and veg)”: khodra in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “vegetables”; “greenery, vegetation”: khodhra in Tunisian.