How to say "duration, period, while" in Arabic
CognateMeaningduration, period, while
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُدَّة
muddaמדה
مدة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
משך זמן
meshekh zmanمِشِخ زْمَان
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
م-د-دHebrew root
מ-ד-דSame root as Hebrew מדד, 'to measure' — root m-d-d is about stretching or extending (Arabic madda, 'to stretch out, extend'; compare مد, 'high tide'). A mudda is a stretch of time, measured out just like a stretched-out cord measures distance.
Related Hebrew word:מדדmadadمَادَاد
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In a phrase
لِمُدَّة أُسْبُوع
li-muddat usbūʿלמדת אסבועfor the duration of a week
Plural
مُدَد
mudadמדדbroken plural CuCaC — bare-consonant twin of the Hebrew root מ-ד-ד.