How to say "to push" in Arabic
New wordMeaningto push
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
دَفَعَ
dafaʿaדפע
دفع
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
דחף
dakhafدَاخَاف
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Arabic root
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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
زَقّ
zaʾʾזאCairo's everyday 'to push' is zaʾʾ (spelled زقّ); dafaʿ there mostly means 'to pay'.
In a phrase
دَفَعَ الْبَاب بِقُوَّة
dafaʿa al-bāb bi-quwwaדפע אל-באב בקוהHe pushed the door hard