How to say "goose" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninggoose
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
إِوَزَّة
iwazzaאוזה
إوزة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אַוָּז
avazأَڤَاز
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
و-ز-زIwazza and avaz look like a clean inherited match, and they nearly are — but comparative Semitists usually treat this as an old shared borrowing (possibly via Aramaic) rather than native Proto-Semitic vocabulary, since geese weren't part of the earliest Semitic-speakers' world. Either way, the word comes free.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
وِزَّة
wizzaוזהCairo drops the initial vowel: wizza.
In a phrase
إِوَزَّة بَيْضَاء
iwazza bayḍāʾאוזה ביצ'אאa white goose
Plural
إِوَزَّات
iwazzātאוזאתsound feminine plural -āt