mika ميكا

Moroccan Darija · noun

“mika” (ميكا) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning plastic bag.

Meanings

1. plastic bag
2. plastic (material)

Usage

Mika is the common word for the plastic bag you get at the grocer's, at the market or at the bakery. You say chi mika for "a bag" and lmika for "the bag". The most frequent plural is mikat. By extension, the word also means plastic as a material, for example a tarpaulin or plastic film. The term is colloquial and understood everywhere in Morocco. Note that the word does not mean the mineral mica. It is also written ميكة with a final tā'.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mika” but also “mica” and “mikka”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Its Arabic spelling is not fixed either: you will find ميكا and ميكة, all the same word.

Type “mika” on the Arabic keyboard