How to say "sailor" in Arabic
New wordMeaningsailor
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَحَّار
baḥḥārבחאר
بحار
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מלח
malakhمَالَاخ
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ب-ح-رBuilt straight on بحر 'sea' — a root already flagged as a false friend of Hebrew בחר 'he chose' (see the sea entry). No further Hebrew relative for the sailor himself: מלח comes from an unrelated word, מלח 'salt'.
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In a phrase
الْبَحَّار فِي السَّفِينَة
al-baḥḥār fī s-safīnaאל-בחאר פי א-ספינהThe sailor is on the ship.
Plural
بَحَّارَة
baḥḥāraבחארהbroken plural CaCCaCa, a common professions-collective pattern