koucha كوشة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“koucha” (كوشة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning oven (kitchen).
Meanings
- oven (kitchen)
- neighbourhood oven, bakery
Usage
Koucha means oven, both the one in a stove and the traditional oven. Fel koucha means "in the oven": batata fel koucha, baked potatoes; one also says 7ott fel koucha, "put in the oven". Historically, the koucha was also the neighbourhood public oven where people took bread and dishes to be baked, a sense still understood. The word is feminine and common in all registers. For the microwave oven, the French "micro-ondes" is generally used.
Example
حطّيت الدجاجة في الكوشة
7attit ed-djeja fel koucha
“I put the chicken in the oven.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “koucha” but also “kousha”, “kucha”, “kouchaa” and “kocha”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “koucha” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “oven (baker's, traditional)”; “bakery, neighbourhood oven”: koucha in Algerian.