How to say "pistachio" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningpistachio
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
فُسْتُق
fustuqפסתק
فستق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פיסטוק
fistukفِسْتُوك
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Hebrew פיסטוק and Arabic fustuq both descend from the same Persian word pista for the pistachio nut, likely by way of Greek pistákion — a parallel borrowing, not a shared Semitic root.
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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
فُزْدُق
fuzduʾפזדאCairo: fuzduʾ — s → z and the qāf a glottal stop.
In a phrase
فُسْتُق حَلَبِيّ
fustuq ḥalabiyyפסתק חלביAleppo pistachio