How to say "hotel" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninghotel
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
funduqפנדק
فندق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
malonمَالُون
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Hebrew פונדק and Arabic funduq are the same Greek loan — pandokheion, 'takes everyone in' — an ancient roadside inn that checked into both languages: Mishnaic Hebrew took it straight from Greek, Arabic most likely via Aramaic.
Related Hebrew word:פונדקpundakپُونْدَاك
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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
qāf becomes a glottal stop; you will also hear ōtēl, from French hôtel.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo: funduʾ; ōtēl is common too.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Morocco: ūṭīl, from French hôtel.
In a phrase
a big hotel
Plural
broken plural CaCāCiC — like دَفْتَر→دَفَاتِر