How to say "accident, incident" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningaccident, incident
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ḥādithחאדת'
حادث
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
te'unaتِئُونَا
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ح-د-ثHebrew root
ח-ד-שRoot ḥ-d-th is Hebrew ח-ד-ש 'new' (Arabic th answers Hebrew ש): an event is literally 'a new thing that happened'. Arabic ḥadīth means 'new' too — while Hebrew spun the very same root into חדשות, the news.
Related Hebrew word:חדשkhadashخَادَاش
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
The everyday Cairo word for a road accident is ḥadsa.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
A car accident in Morocco is a ksīda, from French accident.
In a phrase
an accident on the road
Plural
Broken plural CawāCiC — like شارع→شوارع.