Tajine Tajine A tajine or tagine (Moroccan Arabic طجين tažin, from Arabic: طاجن tājun; Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵊⵉⵏ) is a Maghrebi dish which is named after the earthenware pot in which it is cooked. It is also called a Maraq/marqa in North Africa. From Moroccan Arabic طجين "tažin", from Arabic طاجن "tājun" "shallow earthen pot", from "tagēnon" "frying-pan, saucepan". The tagine dates back to Harun al-Rashid who was a ruler of the Early Muslim conquests. The earliest writings about the concept of cooking in a tajine appear in the famous "One Thousand and One Nights", an Arabic-language story collection from the ninth century.
Egyptian Arabic phonology other North African varieties, in Egyptian Arabic, the Literary Arabic interdental consonants may correspond to sibilant consonants . Classical Arabic reflex ' is realized as velar in Cairene Egypt in the same way as it is in some southern Arabic dialects in Yemen. Thus, ' , ('mountain'), is pronounced, even in Literary Arabic as rather than . Other consonants are more marginal. In addition to appearing in native words, also appears in loanwords from European languages, such as ('parachute'), and native words with guttural vowels, such as ('my cows') vs ('cowlike'). Labial emphatics and also come from loanwords; minimal pairs