How to say "strike (labor)" in Arabic
New wordMeaningstrike (labor)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
إِضْرَاب
iḍrābאצ'ראב
إضراب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שביתה
shvitaشْڤِيتَا
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ض-ر-بNot a cognate, but a pleasing parallel: Arabic ض-ر-ب daraba means 'to hit' — an iḍrāb, a strike, is workers 'striking' just as in English. Hebrew שביתה reaches for the opposite metaphor, from ש-ב-ת 'to rest, cease' (the Sabbath root): the same labor action framed as a hit in Arabic and a rest in Hebrew.
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In a phrase
أَعْلَنُوا الْإِضْرَاب
aʿlanū al-iḍrābאעלנו אל-אצ'ראבThey declared the strike.