How to say "sock" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningsock
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
jawrabג'ורב
جورب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
gerevگِرِڤ
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Modern Hebrew גרב was borrowed straight from Arabic jawrab by the Hebrew revival (Ben-Yehuda gets the credit); Arabic itself had taken it from Persian gōrāb centuries earlier. The Israeli sock is an Arabic loan with Persian roots.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Usually heard in the plural, jrābāt; kalsāt (from Italian calza) is also common.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's sock is sharāb — the same sound as the word for a drink.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's socks are tqāsher.
In a phrase
clean socks
Plural
broken plural CawāCiC — like خَاتَم→خَوَاتِم