How to say "round" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaninground
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُدَوَّر
mudawwarמדור
مدور
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עגול
agolأَگُول
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
د-و-رHebrew root
ד-ו-רSame root as دائرة/circle above (د-و-ر), 'to go around' — 'round' is just 'made to revolve'. Purely by coincidence, the bare spelling מדור is also an unrelated Hebrew word for a newspaper 'section', and the feminine מדורה means 'bonfire'.
Related Hebrew word:דורdorدُور
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مِدَوَّر
midawwarמדורCairo says midawwar.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
مدوّر
mdewwerמדורDarija: mdewwer.
In a phrase
طَاوِلَة مُدَوَّرَة
ṭāwila mudawwaraטאולה מדורהa round table
Feminine
مُدَوَّرَة
mudawwaraמדורהMore words from this root
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