sder صدر
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sder” (صدر) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning chest, torso.
Meanings
- chest, torso
- breast (poultry meat)
Usage
Sder means the chest, the torso. It is often used with a possessive: "sdri" (my chest), "sdrek" (your chest). In cooking, it means the breast of a bird. The word appears in emotional expressions, for example "dar f sdri" for a sorrow or grudge that one keeps inside. A related verb form, sdder (to export, to issue), belongs mostly to administrative or economic vocabulary and is rarely heard in everyday conversation.
Example
كيضرّني صدري
kaydorrni sdri
“My chest hurts.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanSder | Sdert | |
| nta (you, m.) | katSder | Sderti | Sder |
| nti (you, f.) | katSdri | Sderti | Sdri |
| howa (he) | kaySder | Sder | |
| hiya (she) | katSder | Sdrat | |
| 7na (we) | kanSdro | Sdrna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katSdro | Sdrto | Sdro |
| homa (they) | kaySdro | Sdro |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sder” but also “sdr”, “seder”, “sdder”, “sader” and “sadar”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.