How to say "galabiya (jalabiya)" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninggalabiya (jalabiya)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
jalābiyyaג'לאביה
جلابية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
jalabiyaجَالَابِيَا
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Israeli Hebrew has its own borrowing here too — ג'לבייה — for the same loose, ankle-length robe worn across Egypt, the Gulf, and Bedouin communities in the Negev. Both languages just reused the Arabic word rather than inventing one.
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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
The garment's Egyptian home — gallabiyya, with the hard g and a doubled l.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Morocco's jellāba is the hooded street robe — a cousin garment, not the same cut.
In a phrase
a cotton galabiya
Plural
sound feminine plural -āt