ton طون
Moroccan Darija · noun
“ton” (طون) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning tuna (mostly canned).
Meanings
- tuna (mostly canned)
Usage
Ṭun refers to tuna, borrowed from French. It is used mostly for canned tuna, very common in everyday cooking: sandwiches, salads, pizzas, stuffed msemmen. You say ḥukk d ṭṭun for "a can of tuna" and sandwich b ṭṭun for "a tuna sandwich". The word is masculine and is generally used with the assimilated article, ṭṭun. For fresh fish sold at the market, the same word is used. Context is enough to tell it apart from words that sound similar.
Example
درت ليك سندويتش بالطون
dert lik sandwich b tton
“I made you a tuna sandwich.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ton” but also “tton”, “toun”, “thon” and “tone”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.