How to say "passport" in Arabic
New wordMeaningpassport
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
جَوَاز سَفَر
jawāz safarג'ואז ספר
جواز سفر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
דרכון
darkonدَارْكُون
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ج-و-زThe phrase itself has no Hebrew relative (Hebrew uses the unrelated דרכון) — but the safar piece, spelled just like ספר, is the same root you'll meet again under سافر 'to travel', where its look-alike link to Hebrew is untangled.
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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
بَاسْبُور
basbōrבאסבורThe English loan basbōr is what Cairo says; gawāz safar is the formal phrase.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
بَاسْبُور
pāspōrפאספורFrom French passeport: l-pāspōr.
In a phrase
أَيْنَ جَوَاز سَفَرِي؟
ayna jawāz safarī?אין ג'ואז ספרי?where is my passport?
Plural
جَوَازَات سَفَر
jawāzāt safarג'ואזאת ספרsound plural -āt on جواز