sakran سكران
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“sakran” (سكران) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning drunk, intoxicated.
Meanings
- drunk, intoxicated
- drunkard, habitual drinker
Usage
Sakran describes a person who has been drinking and is no longer in their normal state. The feminine is sakrana, the plural sakrinin or skara. The word also works as a noun: "wahed sakran", a drunkard. With "dima" (always), it describes someone who drinks constantly, and the judgment is then clearly negative. It is also used figuratively, jokingly, for someone talking nonsense or seeming out of it. The register is everyday. The word is not vulgar in itself, but it remains pejorative when aimed at a specific person.
Example
رجع للدار سكران مع الثلاثة متاع الليل.
rja3 leddar sakran m3a ethletha mta3 elli.
“He came home drunk at three in the morning.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sakran” but also “sekran”, “sakrane” and “skran”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sakran” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “drunk, intoxicated”; “talking nonsense”: sakran in Algerian.