How to say "circle" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningcircle
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
دَائِرَة
dāʾiraדאארה
دائرة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עיגול
igulإِيگُول
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
د-و-رHebrew root
ד-ו-רHebrew lexicons connect דור ('generation') to this very root د-و-ر, 'to go around' — a generation conceived as a 'revolution' of time. Hebrew kept the cyclical sense; Arabic kept the circle itself.
Related Hebrew word:דורdorدُور
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
دَايْرَة
dāyraדאירהThe hamza becomes y: dāyra.
In a phrase
دَائِرَة حَمْرَاء
dāʾira ḥamrāʾדאארה חמראאa red circle
Plural
دَوَائِر
dawāʾirדואארbroken plural fawāʿil
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- ovalbayḍāwiyyبَيْضَاوِيّסגלגל
- point, dotnuqṭaنُقْطَةנקודה
- linekhaṭṭخَطّקו
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