How to say "apron" in Arabic
CognateMeaningapron
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
miʾzarמאזר
مئزر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
sinarسِينَار
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ء-ز-رHebrew root
א-ז-רFrom ء-ز-ر 'to gird, wrap around the waist' — letter for letter Hebrew א-ז-ר, the root behind אזר, 'to gird oneself', and אזור, which started out meaning 'belt' before Modern Hebrew broadened it to 'zone, region' (you still gird a region on a map the way you'd gird your waist). A miʾzar is literally 'the girding-thing': an apron, or in classical texts, a waist-wrap. It's built on the same miCCaC pattern as this app's مِعْطَف, 'coat'.
Related Hebrew word:אזורezorإِزُور
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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
The everyday word for a kitchen or school apron; miʾzar is more classical/literary, often used for a waist-wrap in religious contexts like the pilgrim's iḥrām.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo, too, says maryala.
In a phrase
the kitchen apron
Plural
broken plural CaCāCiC