kruvit كروڤيت

Moroccan Darija · noun

“kruvit” (كروڤيت) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning shrimp, prawns.

Meanings

1. shrimp, prawns

Usage

Kruvit means shrimp, at the market, in a restaurant or in home cooking. It is a borrowing from French, adapted to Moroccan pronunciation and in common use, especially in coastal cities. The word is most often used as a collective with no plural marker: "chrit kruvit" (I bought shrimp). It is heard in dishes like "tajine dyal kruvit" or the "pastilla dyal l-ḥut w kruvit". To specify a quantity, people use weight ("kilo dyal kruvit") rather than a plural. Pronunciation and spelling vary: kruvit, krevit, crevit.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kruvit” but also “crevit”, “krevit”, “crevette” and “kroufit”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “kruvit” on the Arabic keyboard