How to say "file/rasp" in Arabic
New wordMeaningfile/rasp
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِبْرَد
mibradמברד
مبرد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פצירה
ptsiraپْتْسِيرَا
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ب-ر-دNo relative for פצירה itself. Mibrad comes from Arabic barada in its sense 'to file (metal)'. The same letters also spell بَرْد 'cold' and بَرَد 'hail', and that hail word does match Hebrew בָּרָד — but it belongs to a different branch, and nothing shows that filing was named after the cold.
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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
مَبْرَد
mabradמברדCairo says mabrad.
In a phrase
بَرَدَ الْمِعْدَن بِالْمِبْرَد
barada al-miʿdan bi-l-mibradברד אל-מעדן בא-ל-מברדHe filed the metal down.
Plural
مَبَارِد
mabāridמבארדbroken plural maCāCiC