How to say "bag" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningbag
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
كِيس
kīsכיס
كيس
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שקית
sakitسَاكِيت
How the two words are related
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Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Hebrew כיס 'pocket' and Arabic kīs 'bag, sack' are the same ancient purse — Akkadian kīsu, passed around via Aramaic כיסא. Hebrew shrank it onto the trousers; Arabic kept it in the hand: a kīs is a shopping bag, a sack, a pouch.
Related Hebrew word:כיסkisكِيس
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
مِيكَة
mīkaמיכהA plastic bag in Morocco is a mīka; kīs is a sack.
In a phrase
كِيس خُبْز
kīs khubzכיס ח'בזa bag of bread
Plural
أَكْيَاس
akyāsאכיאסbroken plural ʾaCCāC — like زِرّ→أَزْرَار