kouzina كوزينة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“kouzina” (كوزينة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning kitchen (the room).
Meanings
- kitchen (the room)
- cooking, cuisine
Usage
Kouzina is the usual word for the kitchen, the room in the house. It is most often used with the article: "rani f lkouzina" (I am in the kitchen). It can also mean the way of cooking: "lkouzina lmeghribiya" (Moroccan cuisine). For the action of cooking, the verb tyyeb is preferred. The plural is kouzinat. Beware of the informal homonym kouzina, feminine of kouzan (female cousin), which context allows you to tell apart.
Example
ماما فالكوزينة كاطيب
mama f lkouzina katyeb
“Mum is in the kitchen, she's cooking.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kouzina” but also “kozina”, “kuzina” and “cozina”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “kouzina” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “kitchen (room of the house)”; “cooking, art of cooking”: kozina in Algerian.