How to say "border" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningborder
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
حُدُود
ḥudūdחדוד
حدود
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
גבול
gvulگْڤُول
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ح-د-دHebrew root
ח-ד-דThe root ḥ-d-d is Hebrew חד 'sharp' (compare חידד 'to sharpen'). Arabic ḥadd is an edge or limit — and a country's border is its ḥudūd, always in the plural, where the land's edge runs.
Related Hebrew word:חדkhadخَاد
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In a phrase
عَبَرْنَا الْحُدُود
ʿabarnā al-ḥudūdעברנא אל-חדודWe crossed the border.