How to say "grapevine, vine (the plant)" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaninggrapevine, vine (the plant)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
دَالِيَة
dāliyaדאליה
دالية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
גפן
gefenگِفِن
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
د-ل-وHebrew root
ד-ל-הModern Hebrew's plain word for a grapevine, גפן, is unrelated. But Arabic dāliya, 'trellised vine', shares its root with a rarer, poetic Hebrew word: דלית, 'bough, tendril' (Ezekiel's cedar reaching its branches) — both from a root meaning 'to hang, dangle, reach down', the same root, in fact, behind دلو, 'bucket' (something lowered to draw water).
Related Hebrew word:דליתdalitدَالِيت
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In a phrase
دَالِيَة عِنَب
dāliyat ʿinabדאליה ענבa grapevine
Plural
دَوَالٍ
dawālinדואליןirregular defective plural, as in the common phrase دَوَالِي الْعِنَب