How to say "garden" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaninggarden

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

بُسْتَان

bustānבסתאן

بستان

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

גן

ganگَان

How the two words are related

Loanword

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

Neither language owns this one: Hebrew בוסתן and Arabic bustān were both borrowed from Persian bōstān, literally 'place of fragrance'.

Related Hebrew word:בוסתןbustanبُوسْتَان

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

جْنَيْنِة

jnēneג'נינה

Spoken Levantine usually says jnēne for a garden; a bustān is more of an orchard.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

جِنَيْنَة

ginēnaגנינה

Cairo: ginēna, with the hard g.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

جرْدَة

jerdaג'רדה

Darija's garden is a jerda.

بُسْتَان جَمِيل

bustān jamīlבסתאן ג'מיל

a beautiful garden