How to say "cemetery" in Arabic
CognateMeaningcemetery
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
maqbaraמקברה
مقبرة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
beit kvarotبِيت كْڤَارُوت
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ق-ب-رHebrew root
ק-ב-רAs direct as it gets: Arabic ق-ب-ر and Hebrew ק-ב-ר are the identical root for 'bury' — Hebrew קבר and Arabic qabr both mean 'grave'. مقبرة is simply 'the place of graves', echoed exactly by Hebrew's own בֵּית קְבָרוֹת, 'house of graves'.
Related Hebrew word:קברkeverكِڤِر
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Same qāf-to-glottal-stop shift as مقهى and حديقة.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo, too, says maʾbara.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija calls a cemetery a rūḍa — MSA's garden.
In a phrase
an old cemetery
Plural
broken plural maCāCiC