sekka سكة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sekka” (سكة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning railway track, rails.
Meanings
- railway track, rails
- railway
Usage
Sekka means the railway track, that is, the rails the train runs on. It is heard mostly in the expression sekkat l7did, literally "the iron track", which means the railway in general. It is also found in the name of the national railway office. In daily life, one says for example that one lives 7da sekka, "near the railway track", or that one must not cross the sekka. The word is feminine. For the train itself, tran or tren is used instead. Do not confuse sekka with zenqa, the street, or triq, the road.
Example
ما تقطعش السكة، التران جاي
ma t9te3ch sekka, tran jay
“Don't cross the railway track, the train is coming.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sekka” but also “skka”, “sika” and “seka”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sekka” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “railway track, rails”; “platform, track (station)”: sekka in Tunisian.