mticha مطيشات
Moroccan Darija · noun
“mticha” (مطيشات) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning tomatoes.
Meanings
- tomatoes
Usage
Mticha is the plural of maticha, the tomato. The word is in daily use at the market and in the kitchen. To talk about the tomato as a product or ingredient, the collective maticha is used instead, for example chri maticha, "buy tomatoes". The plural mticha is used more for counting or for tomatoes taken one by one, as in jouj mticha, "two tomatoes". The variant matichat is also found. Canned tomato sauce is often called maticha mʿelba or simply maticha.
Example
قطع جوج مطيشات للشلادة
9te3 jouj mticha l chlada
“Cut two tomatoes for the salad.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mticha” but also “matichat”, “mtichat” and “maticha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.