How to say "farm" in Arabic
CognateMeaningfarm
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مَزْرَعَة
mazraʿaמזרעה
مزرعة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חווה
khavaخَاڤَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ز-ر-عHebrew root
ז-ר-עBuilt on ز-ر-ع, the very root behind زَرَعَ 'to sow' (already in your deck) — and the identical Hebrew root ז-ר-ע gives זרע 'seed' and לזרוע 'to sow'. Hebrew just never turned it into the everyday word for farm (that's חווה), but the seed-connection is exact.
Related Hebrew word:זרעzeraزِرَا
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
عِزْبَة
ʿizbaעזבהThe Egyptian farm estate is an ʿizba.
In a phrase
مَزْرَعَة كَبِيرَة
mazraʿa kabīraמזרעה כבירהa big farm
Plural
مَزَارِع
mazāriʿמזארעbroken plural maCāCiC