tkhzin تخزين
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tkhzin” (تخزين) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning storage, warehousing.
Meanings
- storage, warehousing
- stockpiling, keeping supplies
Usage
Tkhzin is the verbal noun of khzen, "to store, to put aside." It is used for warehousing goods or supplies, for example wheat or oil. It is also used in computing for the capacity of a phone or a disk. In this technical sense, many speakers also say "stockage" in French. The word is neutral in register, a little more formal than the verb. For "storeroom," the words are khzin or bit l-khzin, not tkhzin.
Example
التيليفون ديالي ما بقاش فيه بلاصة د التخزين
ttilifon dyali ma b9ach fih blasa d ttkhzin
“My phone has no storage space left.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tkhzin” but also “takhzin”, “tekhzine”, “t5zin” and “ta5zin”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.