How to say "college, faculty" in Arabic
CognateMeaningcollege, faculty
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
كُلِّيَّة
kulliyyaכליה
كلية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מכללה
mikhlalaمِخْلَالَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ك-ل-لHebrew root
כ-ל-לBoth college-words grow from the same 'all' root: Arabic kulliyya is built on kull, 'all, whole' (root ك-ل-ل), and Modern Hebrew מכללה was independently coined on the identical root כ-ל-ל — kelal, 'the general, the whole'. A college, in both languages, ends up meaning 'the place of everything': a general institution, as opposed to one specialized school. (The phonetic spelling כליה, by pure coincidence, also happens to be the Hebrew word for 'kidney' — unrelated root, just a fun echo.)
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In a phrase
طَالِب فِي الْكُلِّيَّة
ṭālib fī l-kulliyyaטאלב פי אל-כליהa student at the college
Plural
كُلِّيَّات
kulliyyātכליאתsound feminine plural -āt.