9echra قشرة

Tunisian Derja · noun

“9echra” (قشرة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning peel, skin (fruit, vegetable).

Meanings

1. peel, skin (fruit, vegetable)
2. bark, crust, shell
3. dandruff (of the scalp)

Usage

9echra is the skin or peel of a fruit or vegetable: "9echrat el banana", "9echrat el bsal". The word also covers other outer layers, like tree bark or an eggshell. The plural is 9chour. In health and beauty contexts, "9echrat ech-cha3r" or simply 9echra refers to dandruff. The related verb is 9echher, "to peel". Don't confuse this word with human skin, which is jeld.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “9echra” but also “9ochra”, “qechra” and “kechra”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.

Type “9echra” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “peel, skin of a fruit or vegetable”; “shell (of an egg), bark”: 9echra in Moroccan.