ssebt السبت
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ssebt” (السبت) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning Saturday.
Meanings
- Saturday
Usage
Ssebt means Saturday. It is used without a preposition to place an action in time: "ssebt ghadi nemchi" means "I'm going on Saturday." To be more precise, say "nhar ssebt" (on Saturday), "ssebt jjay" (next Saturday) or "ssebt lli fat" (last Saturday). The word also appears in many place names that come from a weekly market held on Saturday, such as Sebt Gzoula. For an English speaker, note that the article is part of the word. Ssebt has no common plural.
Example
واش مسالي السبت الجاي؟
wach msali ssebt jjay?
“Are you free next Saturday?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ssebt” but also “sebt”, “ssbt”, “sbt” and “essebt”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “ssebt” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “Saturday”: ssebt in Algerian.