How to say "greenhouse" in Arabic
New wordMeaninggreenhouse
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
دَفِيئَة
dafīʾaדפיאה
دفيئة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חממה
khamamaخَامَامَا
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
د-ف-أNo Hebrew relative in the roots — but the naming logic matches: both words mean, literally, 'the warm place', just built from two different Semitic warmth-roots (د-ف-أ vs Hebrew ח-מ-ם).
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
بَيْت بْلَاسْتِيك
bēt blastīkבית בלסטיךColloquially, 'the plastic house' — bēt blastīk — is far more common than the formal dafīʾa.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
صُوبَة
ṣōbaצובהEgypt's greenhouse is a ṣōba.
In a phrase
دَفِيئَة زِرَاعِيَّة
dafīʾa zirāʿiyyaדפיאה זראעיהan agricultural greenhouse
Plural
دَفِيئَات
dafīʾātדפיאאתsound feminine plural -āt