How to say "goat" in Arabic
CognateMeaninggoat
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
عَنْز
ʿanzענז
عنز
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עֵז
ezإِز
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ع-ن-زHebrew root
ע-זʿAnz and ʿez go back to the same Proto-Semitic *ʿanz — Hebrew simply lost the middle nun, a regular process you'll meet again comparing Arabic ibn (son) to Hebrew's ben.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مِعْزَة
miʿzaמעזהCairo's goat is a miʿza, from the collective maʿz.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
معْزَة
meʿzaמעזהDarija: meʿza.
In a phrase
عَنْز بَيْضَاء
ʿanz bayḍāʾענז ביצ'אאa white goat
Plural
عُنُوز
ʿunūzענוזbroken plural CuCūC