How to say "tractor" in Arabic
CognateMeaningtractor
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
jarrārג'ראר
جرار
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
traktorتْرَاكْتُور
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ج-ر-رHebrew root
ג-ר-רArabic jarrār, 'tractor', is literally 'the great puller' from jarra, 'to pull, drag' — exactly Hebrew גרר, 'to drag, tow', the root behind גוֹרֵר, a tugboat. Modern Hebrew imported the international word 'tractor' instead, but the native root for pulling was sitting right there.
Related Hebrew word:גררgararگَارَار
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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: garrār.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
From French tracteur: ṭrāktūr.
In a phrase
an agricultural tractor
Plural
sound feminine plural -āt, typical for machines