How to say "faucet, tap" in Arabic
New wordMeaningfaucet, tap
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ḥanafiyyaחנפיה
حنفية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
berezبِرِز
How the two words are related
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No Hebrew relative — but a fun piece of trivia instead: popular Arabic etymology ties ḥanafiyya to the Ḥanafī school of Islamic law. The most-repeated version credits Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's mosque in 19th-century Cairo, where taps were installed for wuḍūʾ; Ḥanafī jurists permitted ablution from running tap water where other schools initially balked, and the tap kept the name of the school that approved it. (Other tellings trace it instead to حَنَف 'straightness' or to Coptic — the true origin is debated.)
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Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
From French robinet; the Darija tap.
In a phrase
He turned on the faucet.