sikritira سكريتيرة

Moroccan Darija · noun

“sikritira” (سكريتيرة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning secretary (woman).

Meanings

1. secretary (woman)
2. assistant

Usage

Sikritira is a borrowing from French "secrétaire", adapted with the feminine ending -a. It is very common for the secretary of an office, a doctor or an administration. You go to her to make an appointment, hand in a file or get information. It is much more natural in darija than Standard Arabic katiba. The most common plural is sikritirat. The Arabic spelling varies, with or without a ya after the ra, without any change in meaning.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

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

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

Type “sikritira” on the Arabic keyboard