How to say "paradise, garden" in Arabic
CognateMeaningparadise, garden
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
jannaג'נה
جنة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
gan edenگَان إِدِن
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ج-ن-نHebrew root
ג-נ-ןRoot g-n-n, 'to cover, shield' — the same root gives Hebrew גן (a shielded plot) and גנן (gardener), and Arabic jinn (the hidden ones) and majnūn (crazy — 'covered' in the mind). Janna, Islam's Paradise, and גן עדן, Eden's garden, share the very same word for a walled-off, shielded green place.
Related Hebrew word:גןganگَان
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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
Hard g in Cairo: ganna.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: jenna.
In a phrase
Garden of Eden
Plural
sound feminine plural