How to say "generous" in Arabic

Shifted meaning

Meaninggenerous

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

كَرِيم

karīmכרים

كريم

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

נדיב

nadivنَادِيڤ

How the two words are related

Shifted meaning

Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.

Arabic root

ك-ر-م

Hebrew root

כ-ר-ם

Root כ-ר-ם is exactly Hebrew kerem (כרם), 'vineyard' — Arabic even keeps that literal sense too, in the separate word karm (كَرْم). karīm pushes the same root a step further: a word for a fruit-bearing, prized piece of land became an adjective for someone who gives freely of what's valuable — generous, noble.

Related Hebrew word:כרםkeremكِرِم

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In a phrase

مُضِيف كَرِيم
muḍīf karīmמצ'יף כרים

a generous host

Plural

كِرَام
kirāmכראם

broken plural CiCāC — also كرماء (kuramāʾ) in more formal registers

Feminine

كَرِيمَة
karīmaכרימה

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