tanjra طنجرة
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tanjra” (طنجرة) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning pot, saucepan.
Meanings
- pot, saucepan
Usage
Tanjra refers to a metal pot or saucepan with handles, used for cooking over a fire. The word is feminine, and its usual plural is tnajer. In Moroccan cooking, it coexists with more specific terms, such as gdra for the traditional cooking pot or kokot for the pressure cooker. The choice of word varies by family and region. To specify the contents, dyal is used: tanjra dyal l-ma, a pot of water. The word has no connection with the name of the city Tanja.
Example
حط الطنجرة فوق العافية
7ett t-tanjra fouq l-3afya
“Put the pot on the fire.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tanjra” but also “tenjra”, “tnjra” and “tanjara”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tanjra” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “pot, saucepan”: tanjra in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “cooking pot, large deep pot”; “lower part of a couscous steamer”: tanjra in Tunisian.