How to say "drill" in Arabic
New wordMeaningdrill
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِثْقَاب
mithqābמת'קאב
مثقاب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מקדחה
makdekhaمَاكْدِخَا
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
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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
شَنْيُور
shanyūrשניורCairo's electric drill is a shanyūr, from French chignole.
In a phrase
ثَقَبَ الْحَائِط بِالْمِثْقَاب
thaqaba al-ḥāʾiṭ bi-l-mithqābת'קב אל-חאאט בא-ל-מת'קאבHe drilled the wall.
Plural
مَثَاقِيب
mathāqībמת'אקיבbroken plural maCāCīC — like مِفْتَاح→مَفَاتِيح