fricassé فريكاسي
Tunisian Derja · noun
“fricassé” (فريكاسي) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning fried stuffed bread roll (tuna, harissa, egg…).
Meanings
- fried stuffed bread roll (tuna, harissa, egg…)
Usage
The fricassé is a small roll of leavened dough fried in oil, then split open and filled with tuna, potato, hard-boiled egg, olives and harissa, sometimes with méchouia. It is a popular snack, sold in small shops and associated with street food, like lablabi or kafteji. People say "nekel fricassé" (I'm eating a fricassé) or "zouz fricassé" (two fricassés). The word often stays unchanged in the plural. Note: it has nothing to do with the French fricassée, a meat dish in sauce.
Example
نشريو زوز فريكاسي وناكلوهم في الطريق.
nechriw zouz fricassé w naklouhom fi tri9.
“We'll buy two fricassés and eat them on the way.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “fricassé” but also “fricasse”, “frikassi”, “fricassi” and “frikasé”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.