kravat كرافات
Tunisian Derja · noun
“kravat” (كرافات) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning necktie.
Meanings
- necktie
Usage
Kravat is the adapted loanword from French "cravate", in common use in Tunisia. It is feminine: kravat jdida, a new tie. One says lbes kravat for "to put on a tie", and kravat papillon or papillon for the bow tie. The word evokes formal dress: weddings, interviews, offices, courts. Tunisian pronunciation often replaces the v with an f, hence spellings such as krafat. There is no competing dialectal equivalent; the standard term rabta 3ounq appears only in official writing.
Example
لبس كرافات للعرس
lbes kravat lel 3ers
“He wore a tie to the wedding.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kravat” but also “krafat”, “cravate”, “kravate” and “karavat”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.