How to say "geometry, engineering" in Arabic

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Meaninggeometry, engineering

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

هَنْدَسَة

handasaהנדסה

هندسة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

הנדסה

handasaهَانْدَاسَا

How the two words are related

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Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Hebrew took this word from Arabic already in the Middle Ages, when Jewish scholars writing on mathematics used הנדסה for geometry; Modern Hebrew then made it the word for 'engineering', which is what handasa means in both languages today — spelled and pronounced almost identically, right down to the Persian-derived root (from andāza, 'measurement') that both languages inherited via Arabic. Arabic still stretches handasa to cover 'geometry' too; in Hebrew that sense now sounds dated (as in the הנדסת המישור of old school textbooks), so lean on the 'engineering' meaning as the safe one-to-one match.

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In a phrase

هَنْدَسَة مِعْمَارِيَّة
handasa miʿmāriyyaהנדסה מעמאריה

architecture

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