How to say "bakery" in Arabic
New wordMeaningbakery
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مَخْبَز
makhbazמח'בז
مخبز
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מאפייה
ma'afiyaمَاءَافِيَا
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
خ-ب-زNo Hebrew relative — מאפייה runs on the baking root א-פ-ה, while Arabic reuses خ-ب-ز here, the same root as خُبْز 'bread' (already in your deck): a مخبز is simply 'the place of bread'.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
فُرْن
furnפרןCairo's bakery is a furn, an oven.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
فرَّان
ferrānפראןMorocco's bakery is the ferrān, the neighborhood oven.
In a phrase
مَخْبَز الْحَيّ
makhbaz al-ḥayyמח'בז אל-חיthe neighborhood bakery
Plural
مَخَابِز
makhābizמח'אבזbroken plural maCāCiC