How to say "eggplant" in Arabic
New wordMeaningeggplant
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَاذِنْجَان
bādhinjānבאד'נג'אן
باذنجان
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חציל
khatsilخَاتْسِيل
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No Hebrew relative — bādhinjān comes from Persian bādingān, itself from Sanskrit, and gave English the word aubergine by way of Catalan and French. Hebrew חציל is a modern coinage, unrelated.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
بِتِنْجَان
bitingānבתנגאןCairo: bitingān, with the hard g.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
دنْجَال
denjālדנג'אלDarija's eggplant is denjāl.
In a phrase
بَاذِنْجَان مَشْوِيّ
bādhinjān mashwīבאד'נג'אן משויgrilled eggplant