sokkri سكري
Tunisian Derja · noun
“sokkri” (سكري) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning diabetes.
Meanings
- diabetes
- sugary, made of sugar
Usage
The word sokkri mainly means diabetes. It is used in phrases such as 3andou sokkri ("he is diabetic") or marth es-sokkri. In everyday conversation, you also very often hear es-sokkor, literally "the sugar", for the same illness: fih es-sokkor. Sokkri belongs rather to a medical or media register, but everyone understands it. Used as an adjective, it means "sugary" or "of sugar", as in 9sab sokkri, "sugar cane". It should not be confused with sokkor, sugar itself.
Example
بابا عندو السكري وما ينجمش ياكل الحلو
baba 3andou es-sokkri w ma ynajjemch yekel el-7lou
“My dad has diabetes and can't eat sweet things.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “sokkri” but also “sukkri”, “soukri”, “sokri” and “sokkary”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.