skotch سكوتش
Moroccan Darija · noun
“skotch” (سكوتش) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning adhesive tape, Scotch tape.
Meanings
- adhesive tape, Scotch tape
Usage
Skotch is the common loanword for adhesive tape, whatever its brand or color. It is fully part of everyday speech: people say 7ett lih skotch (put some tape on it) or lsseq b skotch (stick it with tape). The word is used without an article or with the article l-, pronounced lskotch. In darija, it does not mean Scotch whisky. That sense appears only in an explicit context, and people would then rather say wiski. The register is informal and neutral.
Example
واش عندك سكوتش
wach 3endek skotch
“Do you have any Scotch tape?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “skotch” but also “scotch” and “sckotch”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.