How to say "door" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningdoor

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

بَاب

bābבאב

باب

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

דלת

deletدِلِت

How the two words are related

Loanword

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

Arabic root

ب-و-ب

Aramaic בבא "gate" — the same word as Arabic bāb, both usually traced back to Akkadian bābu — lives on in the Talmud tractates בבא קמא and בבא בתרא, "the first gate" and "the last gate". So you already know this word from the bookshelf.

Related Hebrew word:בבאbavaبَاڤَا

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In a phrase

الْبَاب مَفْتُوح
al-bāb maftūḥאל-באב מפתוח

The door is open.

Plural

أَبْوَاب
abwābאבואב

broken plural aCCāC — like وَلَد→أَوْلَاد

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