How to say "garage" in Arabic
New wordMeaninggarage
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
mirʾābמראאב
مرآب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
musakhمُوسَاخ
How the two words are related
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ر-أ-بNo Hebrew relative — mirʾāb comes from رأب (raʾaba, 'to mend, patch up'; رَأَبَ الصَّدْعَ is literally 'to mend the crack'), so a mirʾāb was originally a repair garage before it settled into meaning any place to park. Hebrew's own מוסך comes from an unrelated root, ס-כ-כ 'to cover, shelter' — the same root as סוכה, the Sukkot booth.
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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
Cairo just says garāj.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
From French garage, with a hard g.
In a phrase
The car is in the garage.
Plural
broken plural maCāCiC with the root's own hamza