How to say "checkpoint, barrier" in Arabic

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Meaningcheckpoint, barrier

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

حَاجِز

ḥājizחאג'ז

حاجز

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מחסום

makhsomمَاخْسُوم

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ح-ج-ز

No Hebrew relative, but a fun aside: the same root ح-ج-ز gives حجز, 'to reserve, to book' (a hotel room, a ticket) — a reservation and a checkpoint are both, at heart, something blocked off for a purpose.

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In a phrase

حَاجِز عَسْكَرِيّ

ḥājiz ʿaskariyyחאג'ז עסכרי

a military checkpoint

Plural

حَوَاجِز

ḥawājizחואג'ז

Broken plural CawāCiC — like حادث→حوادث.

More words from this root

reservation, bookingḥajzحَجْزהזמנה