How to say "grapevine, vine (the plant)" in Arabic

Shifted meaning

Meaninggrapevine, 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-و

Hebrew root

ד-ל-ה

Modern 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 ענב

a grapevine

Plural

دَوَالٍ
dawālinדואלין

irregular defective plural, as in the common phrase دَوَالِي الْعِنَب

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