How to say "jar" in Arabic

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Meaningjar

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

جَرَّة

jarraג'רה

جرة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

צנצנת

tsintsenetتْسِنْتْسِنِت

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ج-ر-ر

No Hebrew relative: formal צנצנת is unrelated. Don't be misled by Israeli slang ג'ורה: it comes from a different Arabic word, جُورَة jūra 'pit, cesspit' (see that entry), not from jarra.

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In a phrase

جَرَّة فَخَّار

jarrat fakhkhārג'רת פח'אר

a clay jar

Plural

جِرَار

jirārג'ראר

broken plural CiCāC — like جَبَل→جِبَال

More words from this root

tractorjarrārجَرَّارטרקטור