How to say "floor (of a room)" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningfloor (of a room)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَرْضِيَّة
arḍiyyaארצ'יה
أرضية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
רצפה
ritspaرِتْسْپَا
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
أ-ر-ضHebrew root
א-ר-ץBuilt on أرض 'earth, ground' — Hebrew ארץ, with the regular צ↔ض correspondence — arḍiyya is simply 'the ground-y thing', i.e. flooring. Hebrew, though, built its everyday word for a room's floor from an unrelated root: רצפה.
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In a phrase
الْأَرْضِيَّة نَظِيفَة
al-arḍiyya naẓīfaאל-ארצ'יה נט'יפהThe floor is clean.