How to say "vegetables" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningvegetables
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خُضَار
khuḍārח'צ'אר
خضار
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ירקות
yerakotيِرَاكُوت
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
خ-ض-رHebrew root
ח-צ-רThe root kh-ḍ-r means green, and its regular Hebrew twin is חציר — grass, and in Numbers 11:5 the leeks the Israelites missed from Egypt. Green things on both sides.
Related Hebrew word:חצירkhatsirخَاتْسِير
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
خُضْرَة
khuḍraח'צ'רהDarija: khuḍra.
In a phrase
خُضَار طَازَجَة
khuḍār ṭāzajaח'צ'אר טאזג'הfresh vegetables