sekka سكة
Tunisian Derja · noun
“sekka” (سكة) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning railway track, rails.
Meanings
- railway track, rails
- platform, track (station)
Usage
Sekka means the railway track, the rails the train runs on. People say sekket et-tran or, more formally, sekket el 7did, which also means the railway network. In a station, the word can mean the track a train leaves from. It does not have the general meaning of "street" or "road" that it has elsewhere: for a road, people say thniya or triq. The register is everyday. The plural is sekak.
Example
ما تمشيش على السكة، التران جاي
ma temchich 3la es-sekka, et-tran jay
“Don't walk on the track, the train is coming.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sekka” but also “seka”, “sikka”, “sekkaa” and “sika”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sekka” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “railway track, rails”; “railway”: sekka in Moroccan.