How to say "newspaper" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningnewspaper
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
جَرِيدَة
jarīdaג'רידה
جريدة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עיתון
itonإِيتُون
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ج-ر-دHebrew root
ג-ר-דRoot j-r-d 'strip, peel' is Hebrew ג-ר-ד 'scrape' (לגרד). A jarīda was originally a stripped palm leaf used for writing — the scraped leaf became the daily paper.
Related Hebrew word:לגרדlegaredلِگَارِد
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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
جَرِيدَة
garīdaגרידהHard g in Cairo: garīda.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
جْرِيدَة
jrīdaג'רידהThe first vowel drops in Darija: jrīda.
In a phrase
قَرَأْتُ الْجَرِيدَة
qaraʾtu al-jarīdaקראת אל-ג'רידהI read the newspaper.
Plural
جَرَائِد
jarāʾidג'ראאדBroken plural CaCāʾiC — like حديقة→حدائق.