How to say "green" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaninggreen
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
akhḍarאח'צ'ר
أخضر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
yarokيَارُوك
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
خ-ض-رHebrew root
ח-צ-רThe root kh-ḍ-r means green, and its regular Hebrew cousin is חציר (ḥatsir) — grass, and the leeks the Israelites missed from Egypt in Numbers 11:5. Arabic broadened the root into the color itself; Hebrew kept it tied to the green growing thing.
Related Hebrew word:חצירkhatsirخَاتْسِير
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija drops the initial a: khḍer.
In a phrase
green olives
Plural
color plural CuCC — like أحمر→حمر, أبيض→بيض
Feminine
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