tiki تيكي
Tunisian Derja · noun
“tiki” (تيكي) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning ticket.
Meanings
- ticket
- receipt
Usage
A borrowing from French "ticket", well integrated into everyday speech. Tiki is used for a bus, metro, train or cinema ticket, and also for the till receipt kept for a refund or exchange. It takes the article and possessives like a Tunisian noun: et-tiki, tiki mta3i. The most commonly heard plural is tikiyet. Frequent constructions: qass tiki (to take a ticket), tiki aller-retour. The word is familiar but neutral. In formal writing or in administration, tadhkra is used instead.
Example
نسيت التيكي متاعي في الكار.
nsit et-tiki mta3i fel car.
“I forgot my ticket on the bus.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tiki” but also “tické”, “tiké”, “tickey” and “tikey”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.