How to say "park" in Arabic

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Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

حَدِيقَة

ḥadīqaחדיקה

حديقة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

פארק

parkپَارْك

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Arabic root

ح-د-ق

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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

حَدِيقَة
ḥadīʾaחדיאה

The same qāf-to-glottal-stop shift as طريق→ṭarīʾ.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

جِنِينَة
ginēnaגנינה

Cairo's park is a ginēna, a garden.

In a phrase

حَدِيقَة عَامَّة
ḥadīqa ʿāmmaחדיקה עאמה

a public park

Plural

حَدَائِق
ḥadāʾiqחדאאק

broken plural CaCāʾiC — like رِسَالَة→رَسَائِل

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