How to say "cone" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningcone

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

مَخْرُوط

makhrūṭמח'רוט

مخروط

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

חרוט

kharutخَارُوت

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

خ-ر-ط

Hebrew root

ח-ר-ט

An exact match: Arabic خ-ر-ط and Hebrew ח-ר-ט are the same root (خ regularly answers ח), both centered on 'turning, engraving a shape on a lathe'. Hebrew חרוט (ḥarut) and Arabic makhrūṭ land on the same result — a cone, the classic lathe-turned shape.

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In a phrase

حَجْم الْمَخْرُوط

ḥajm al-makhrūṭחג'ם אל-מח'רוט

the volume of the cone

Plural

مَخَارِيط

makhārīṭמח'אריט

broken plural mafāʿīl

More words from this root

idle talk, tall tales (Arabic) → nonsense, baloney (Israeli slang)kharṭخَرْطחרטה
mapkharīṭaخَرِيطَةמפה