How to say "immigrant" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningimmigrant

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

مُهَاجِر

muhājirמהאג'ר

مهاجر

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מהגר

mehagerمِهَاگِر

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Arabic root

ه-ج-ر

Hebrew root

ה-ג-ר

Modern Hebrew הגר 'to emigrate' and מהגר 'immigrant' are coined directly on this Arabic root ه-ج-ر — the root behind هِجْرَة hijra, Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE. A twentieth-century Hebrew borrowing, not an ancient shared word.