How to say "field" in Arabic
CognateMeaningfield
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ḥaqlחקל
حقل
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
sadeسَادِي
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ح-ق-لHebrew root
ח-ק-לModern Hebrew חקלאות, 'agriculture', isn't built on any native Hebrew word for 'field' — that's שדה. It's built on Biblical Aramaic חקל, 'field', the exact same word as Arabic ḥaql. Hebrew borrowed its whole discipline-name from its Aramaic cousin, which happens to be Arabic's twin.
Related Hebrew word:חקלאותkhakla'utخَكْلَاؤُوت
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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 Egyptian farmer's field is a ghēṭ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's field is a feddān — in MSA a unit of land area.
In a phrase
a wheat field
Plural
broken plural CuCūC