sokkor سكر
Tunisian Derja · noun
“sokkor” (سكر) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning sugar.
Meanings
- sugar
- diabetes (colloquial)
Usage
Sokkor means sugar in all its forms: sokkor abyedh (white sugar), sokkor asmar (brown sugar), sokkor mor7i (icing sugar). It appears constantly in pastry and syrup recipes, and in the ritual question about coffee or tea: "bi sokkor walla bla sokkor ?". In colloquial speech, 3andou sokkor means "he has diabetes", a very common usage among older people. Beware of the homograph sakkar (the verb "to close"), which is written the same way in Arabic but pronounced differently: sakkar el beb, "he closed the door".
Example
1 كيلة ما لها 2 كيلات سكر وشطر قارصة
1 kila mei lilha 2 kilet sokir wchtar 9arsa
“One measure of water to two measures of sugar and half a lemon.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sokkor” but also “sokor”, “sokker”, “soker”, “sokir” and “saker”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “sokkor” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “sugar”; “diabetes”: sokkar in Moroccan.