How to say "abaya" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningabaya

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

عَبَاءَة

ʿabāʾaעבאאה

عباءة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

עבאיה

abayaأَبَايَا

How the two words are related

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Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Modern Hebrew doesn't translate this one — it just says עבאיה, borrowing the word wholesale for the long black robe, the same way English took 'abaya' straight from Arabic without a detour.

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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

عَبَايَة

ʿabāyaעבאיה

The hamza becomes y in speech: ʿabāya.

In a phrase

عَبَاءَة سَوْدَاء

ʿabāʾa sawdāʾעבאאה סודאא

a black abaya

Plural

عَبَاءَات

ʿabāʾātעבאאאת

sound feminine plural -āt