khsara خسارة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“khsara” (خسارة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning pity, waste.
Meanings
- pity, waste
- loss (financial, material)
- expense, costs
Usage
Khsara is often used on its own, as an exclamation, to express regret about something: khsara! (what a pity!). With fi-, it refers to what would be wasted on someone: machi khsara fik (you deserve it), khsara fih (he isn't worth it). In a commercial context, it means a loss: dar khsara (he took a loss). It can also refer to expenses incurred. The register is neutral and common. The sense "pity" is much more frequent in conversation than the accounting sense.
Example
إوا خسّارة كون فاكرت فيها سيمانا فايتا
ewa khssara kon fakart fiha simana fayta
“Oh, what a pity... if only I had thought of it last week.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khsara” but also “khasara”, “5sara”, “khssara”, “5asara” and “khasaara”. 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 “khsara” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “pity, what a waste”; “loss (money, match)”: khsara in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “too bad!, what a pity”; “loss, harm”: khsara in Tunisian.