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How to say "pit, cesspool (Levantine Arabic) → filthy place; sewer mouth (Israeli slang)" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningpit, cesspool (Levantine Arabic) → filthy place; sewer mouth (Israeli slang)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

جُورَة

jūraג'ורה

جورة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

ג'ורה

joraجُورَا

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

In Levantine Arabic a jūra is any pit — especially the drain or cesspit. Hebrew slang kept the muck: a ג'ורה is a filthy dive, and פה ג'ורה is a mouth that needs soap.

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In a phrase

وَقَعَ فِي الْجُورَة
waqaʿa fī l-jūraוקע פי אל-ג'ורה

he fell into the pit

Plural

جُوَر
juwarג'ור

broken plural CuCaC — like صُورَة→صُوَر

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