How to say "software, program" in Arabic
New wordMeaningsoftware, program
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَرْنَامَج
barnāmajברנאמג'
برنامج
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
תוכנה
tokhnaتُوخْنَا
How the two words are related
New word
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No Hebrew relative — barnāmaj is a Persian import (barnāmag, 'plan, list, program'), not built on Arabic root letters at all. It covers 'program' broadly: a TV barnāmaj, a political barnāmaj, and a software barnāmaj are all the same word, where Hebrew splits them into תוכנית and תוכנה.
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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
بَرْنَامِج
barnāmigברנאמגHard g in Cairo: barnāmig.
In a phrase
ثَبَّتُّ بَرْنَامَج جَدِيد
thabbattu barnāmaj jadīdת'בתת ברנאמג' ג'דידI installed new software.
Plural
بَرَامِج
barāmijבראמג'broken plural — Arabic treats the Persian loan like a native CaCāCiC-pattern word.