How to say "plow" in Arabic
CognateMeaningplow
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِحْرَاث
miḥrāthמחראת'
محراث
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מחרשה
makhreshaمَاخْرِشَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ح-ر-ثHebrew root
ח-ר-שHebrew חרש, 'to plow' (also 'to engrave', and 'to be silent' — all senses of quietly working something over), and Arabic ḥaratha, 'to plow', are the same root letter for letter, with the regular ث↔ש correspondence turning Arabic ث into Hebrew ש. The plow itself, miḥrāth, is built the same m-tool-noun way as Hebrew's מחרשה.
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In a phrase
مِحْرَاث قَدِيم
miḥrāth qadīmמחראת' קדיםan old plow
Plural
مَحَارِيث
maḥārīthמחארית'broken plural maCāCīC