How to say "Greece" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningGreece
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
الْيُونَان
al-yūnānאל-יונאן
اليونان
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יוון
yavanيَاڤَان
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Al-Yūnān and יָוָן are not a native Semitic root but the same old borrowing into Hebrew and Arabic of Ionia, the Greek-speaking coast of Asia Minor closest to the Near East. יון already appears in Genesis as a son of Japheth; Arabic inherited a version of that very old name.
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In a phrase
أَنَا مِنَ الْيُونَان
anā mina al-yūnānאנא מן אל-יונאןI am from Greece