How to say "small garden, vegetable patch" in Arabic
CognateMeaningsmall garden, vegetable patch
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
junaynaג'נינה
جنينة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ginaگِينَا
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ج-ن-نHebrew root
ג-נ-ןHebrew גן and Arabic jannah/junayna share the root ج-ن-ن / ג-נ-ן, 'to cover, enclose' — the same root behind Hebrew מגן (shield) and Arabic جِنّ (jinn, the 'hidden' ones) and جَنِين (janīn, a fetus, hidden in the womb). A garden, in both languages, is at root an enclosed, protected patch.
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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
Cairo's everyday word for any garden is ginēna, hard g and ay flattened to ē.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's garden or orchard is a jnān.
In a phrase
a vegetable patch
Plural
sound feminine plural -āt, typical for diminutives