How to say "hose" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaninghose
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خُرْطُوم
khurṭūmח'רטום
خرطوم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
זרנוק
zarnukزَارْنُوك
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
خ-ر-ط-مHebrew's everyday word for hose, זרנוק, is unrelated. But khurṭūm has a real Hebrew cousin in חַרְטוֹם — 'beak, snout, prow, nose-cone' — which Klein traces through the same Aramaic/Syriac word for a long protruding tube. Same shape, different specific job.
Related Hebrew word:חרטוםkhartomخَرْتُوم
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In a phrase
خُرْطُوم الْمَاء
khurṭūm al-māʾח'רטום אל-מאאthe water hose
Plural
خَرَاطِيم
kharāṭīmח'ראטיםbroken plural CaCāCīC