tritwar طريطوار
Moroccan Darija · noun
“tritwar” (طريطوار) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning sidewalk, pavement.
Meanings
- sidewalk, pavement
Usage
Tritwar is the adapted loanword from French "trottoir". It is in common use in Moroccan cities, with several pronunciations: tritwar, trotwar or tritouar. It is used with the article: ttritwar. For example, mchi 3la ttritwar (walk on the sidewalk) or tal3 fttritwar (it has climbed onto the sidewalk), said of a badly parked car. The word often comes up in complaints about sidewalks taken over by cafés or street vendors. Despite its French origin, it is fully integrated into darija and has no real Arabic equivalent in the spoken language.
Example
مشي على الطريطوار، الطوموبيلات كاتدوز بزربة
mchi 3la ttritwar, ttomobilat katdouz bzerba
“Walk on the sidewalk, the cars go by fast.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tritwar” but also “trotwar”, “tritouar”, “trotouar” and “tretwar”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.