How to say "drawer" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningdrawer
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
دُرْج
durjדרג'
درج
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מגירה
megiraمِگِيرَا
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
د-ر-جHebrew root
ד-ר-גSame root as دَرَج 'stairs' just above (and Hebrew ד-ר-ג) — but a different vowel pattern, a different sense: a durj is a drawer, something that slides step-by-step into its slot. Mind the vowels — daraj climbs, durj slides shut — since with the harakat stripped away, درج is spelled identically for both.
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In a phrase
فَتَحَ الدُّرْج
fataḥa ad-durjפתח א-דרג'He opened the drawer.
Plural
أَدْرَاج
adrājאדראג'broken plural aCCāC — like بَاب→أَبْوَاب