How to say "ice cream" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningice cream
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بُوظَة
būẓaבוט'ה
بوظة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
גלידה
glidaگْلِيدَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Not a Semitic root match — Israeli slang בוזה is a direct, casual loan of Levantine Arabic būẓa, the chewy, mastic-thickened ice cream of Nablus and Damascus, hand-pounded in copper trays. Standard Hebrew גלידה is unrelated, from a root meaning 'to freeze'.
Related Hebrew word:בוזהbuzaبُوزَا
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
آيْس كْرِيم
āys krīmאיס כריםIn Cairo ice cream is āys krīm; būẓa there is a fermented barley drink.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
گْلَاس
glāsגלאסDarija's ice cream is glās, from French glace.
In a phrase
بُوظَة بِالْفُسْتُق
būẓa bi-l-fustuqבוט'ה בלפסתקpistachio ice cream