sokkar سكر
Moroccan Darija · noun
“sokkar” (سكر) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning sugar.
Meanings
- sugar
- diabetes
Usage
Sokkar is the usual word for sugar, both in lumps (qaleb dyal sokkar, the sugar loaf) and in powder form. It comes up constantly when talking about tea, which is drunk very sweet: chi m3elqa dyal sokkar, "a spoonful of sugar". By extension, it also means diabetes: 3ndo sokkar, "he is diabetic", or tal3 lih sokkar, "his blood sugar has gone up". Context tells the two senses apart. The pronunciation varies between sokkar and skkar. The word is masculine.
Example
عندك شي سكر؟
3andak chi skkar?
“Do you have any sugar?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sokkar” but also “skkar”, “sokar”, “skar” and “sukkar”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sokkar” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “sugar”; “diabetes (colloquial)”: sokkor in Tunisian.