maticha مطيشة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“maticha” (مطيشة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning tomato.
Meanings
- tomato
- tomato paste, tomato sauce
Usage
Maticha is the everyday word for tomato throughout Morocco. It is used as a collective (chrit maticha, "I bought tomatoes") or as a unit noun (wa7d lmaticha, "one tomato"). It is a staple ingredient of chlada, tajine and harira. By extension, maticha also means the canned tomato paste added to sauces. The word is an old loan, fully adapted. Don't confuse it with "matcha": it is pronounced ma-ti-cha.
Example
المطيشة غلات بزاف هاد العام
lmaticha ghlat bzaf had l3am
“Tomatoes have become very expensive this year.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “maticha” but also “matecha”, “matisha” and “mtecha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “maticha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “thrown, left lying around”; “abandoned, neglected”: mtaycha in Tunisian.