How to say "curfew" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningcurfew
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
حَظْر تَجَوُّل
ḥaẓr tajawwulחט'ר תג'ול
حظر تجول
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עוצר
otserأُوتْسِر
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ح-ظ-رHebrew root
ח-צ-רRoot ח-צ-ר, via the regular ظ↔צ correspondence: Hebrew חָצֵר is a 'courtyard, yard' — an enclosed space — and Arabic's own حَظِيرَة ḥaẓīra is a fenced pen or corral, the same enclosure. حَظْر stretches that 'fencing in' into 'forbidding, restricting'; a curfew is the state drawing that fence around the whole night.
Related Hebrew word:חצרkhatserخَاتْسِر
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In a phrase
فَرَضُوا حَظْر التَّجَوُّل
faraḍū ḥaẓr at-tajawwulפרצ'ו חט'ר א-תג'ולThey imposed the curfew.