How to say "mood" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningmood
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
mizājמזאג'
مزاج
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
matsav ruakhمَاتْسَاڤ رُوَاخ
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
م-ز-جHebrew root
מ-ז-גHebrew already had מֶזֶג, 'mixed wine' (Song of Songs 7:3), from a mixing root it shares with Aramaic; what medieval translators took from Arabic mizāj was the meaning — Galen's 'mixture' of humors that sets your disposition — and hence 'temperament' and מזג אוויר. A borrowed sense poured into an old Hebrew word.
Related Hebrew word:מזגmezegمِزِگ
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Kīf il-mazāj? — 'how's the mood?' — is a stock Levantine greeting.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
With Cairo's hard g: mazāg — ʿalā mazāgak, as you like.
In a phrase
a good mood