How to say "threshing floor" in Arabic
New wordMeaningthreshing floor
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَيْدَر
baydarבידר
بيدر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
גורן
gorenگُورِن
How the two words are related
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No Hebrew relative — Hebrew's own threshing-floor word, גורן, comes from a different, unrelated root (compare the surname and place-name Goren). Baydar is itself thought to be an old loan into Arabic, for this universal fixture of Near Eastern farm life.
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Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
جُرْن
gurnגרןThe Egyptian threshing floor is a gurn — the cousin of Hebrew גורן.
In a phrase
بَيْدَر الْقَمْح
baydar al-qamḥבידר אל-קמחthe wheat threshing-floor
Plural
بَيَادِر
bayādirביאדרbroken plural CaCāCiC