kafteji كفتاجي
Tunisian Derja · noun
“kafteji” (كفتاجي) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning kafteji, fried chopped vegetables with egg.
Meanings
- kafteji, fried chopped vegetables with egg
- jumble, mess (figurative)
Usage
Kafteji is a popular Tunisian dish. It consists of fried vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkin, zucchini), roughly chopped and then mixed with a fried egg. It is often eaten in a sandwich (kafteji fi khobz) or on a plate, in cheap eateries and street stalls. The word is masculine: kafteji bel kebda (with liver). Because it denotes a mixture of everything, it is also used colloquially and ironically to describe a confused situation or a messy assortment: walet kafteji (it has become a real mess).
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kafteji” but also “kaftaji”, “kefteji”, “kaftéji” and “kafteiji”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.