kaskrout كسكروت
Tunisian Derja · noun
“kaskrout” (كسكروت) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning sandwich, casse-croûte.
Meanings
- sandwich, casse-croûte
- quick snack
Usage
Kaskrout is the adapted loanword from French "casse-croûte". It is the usual word in Tunisia for a sandwich, particularly in a baguette or bread roll, filled with tuna, harissa, salami or turkey ham, etc. You order it at cheap eateries and snack bars: kaskrout tonn, kaskrout salami. People also say nekel kaskrout for a meal eaten on the go. The plural is kaskroutet. The word does not mean just any snack: it is almost always a sandwich.
Example
اعطيني كسكروت تن بالهريسة، يعيشك.
a3tini kaskrout tonn bel harissa, y3aychek.
“Give me a tuna sandwich with harissa, please.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kaskrout” but also “kasskrout”, “kaskroute”, “kaskrot” and “keskrout”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.