rakkez ركز

Tunisian Derja · verb

“rakkez” (ركز) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to concentrate, pay attention.

Meanings

1. to concentrate, pay attention
2. to insist on, emphasize
3. to plant, fix (a stake)

Usage

Rakkez is used mostly in the imperative to ask for someone's attention: rakkez m3aya, "listen to me carefully, concentrate". It is very often heard in class, at work or during a match. With 3la, it means "to insist on" or "to focus on": rakkez 3al 9raya, "focus on your studies". The concrete sense, "to plant" or "to fix firmly" (a stake, a pole), also exists, mostly in the countryside. Mal rakkez means "distracted": enti mouch mrakkez, "you're not concentrating". The register is common and neutral.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “rakkez” but also “rakez”, “rakkiz”, “rakz” and “rakkaz”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “rakkez” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to concentrate, to pay attention”; “to emphasize, to focus on”: rekkez in Moroccan.

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “concentrate, pay attention”; “look closely, stare”: rakkez in Algerian.