How to say "shopping mall" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningshopping mall
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُول
mūlמול
مول
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
קניון
kanyonكَانْيُون
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Both Hebrew and Arabic grabbed this straight from English 'mall', though Modern Hebrew usually says קניון instead. Watch your eyes, not your ears: spelled in Hebrew letters, مول comes out looking exactly like Hebrew מול, 'facing, opposite' — pure coincidence, not a cognate.
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In a phrase
مُول كَبِير
mūl kabīrמול כבירa big mall
Plural
مُولَات
mūlātמולאתsound plural in -āt, the default for borrowed nouns