How to say "firefighter" in Arabic
New wordMeaningfirefighter
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
إِطْفَائِيّ
iṭfāʾīאטפאאי
إطفائي
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
כבאי
kabaiكَابَاي
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ط-ف-أNo shared root: Arabic ط-ف-أ 'to extinguish' and Hebrew כ-ב-ה 'to extinguish' are two entirely different Semitic roots for the same act — every fire, it turns out, has its own vocabulary for going out.
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In a phrase
الْإِطْفَائِيّ يُطْفِئ الْحَرِيق
al-iṭfāʾī yuṭfiʾ al-ḥarīqאל-אטפאאי יטפא אל-חריקThe firefighter puts out the fire.
Plural
إِطْفَائِيُّون
iṭfāʾiyyūnאטפאאיוןsound masculine plural -ūn
Feminine
إِطْفَائِيَّة
iṭfāʾiyyaאטפאאיה