How to say "prize, reward" in Arabic
New wordMeaningprize, reward
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
جَائِزَة
jāʾizaג'אאזה
جائزة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פרס
prasپْرَاس
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
ج-و-زLearn it
On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
جَايْزَة
gayzaגאיזהHard g and the hamza turned to y: gayza.
In a phrase
جَائِزَة نُوبِل
jāʾizat nūbilג'אאזת נובלthe Nobel Prize
Plural
جَوَائِز
jawāʾizג'ואאזbroken plural fawāʿil — a و is inserted after the first radical; the regular pattern for fāʿila-shaped feminine nouns like جَائِزَة