ziti زيتي

Moroccan Darija · adjective

“ziti” (زيتي) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning olive green (color).

Meanings

1. olive green (color)
2. oily, made with oil

Usage

Adjective derived from zit (oil). It mainly refers to a color, olive green or khaki, for a garment, paint or a car. It is used after the noun, often in lon ziti (olive-green color). It agrees in gender and number: ziti (masculine), zitiya (feminine), zitiyin (plural). The sense "oily" exists but is rarer. Beware of the Arabic spelling: in a sentence like "rak zitti fih", the same written word is actually a colloquial verb form meaning "you overdid it". It is then no longer the adjective.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ziti” but also “zitti”, “zity” and “zeiti”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “ziti” on the Arabic keyboard