How to say "nurse" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningnurse
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُمَرِّض
mumarriḍממרצ'
ممرض
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אח (בבית חולים)
akh (beveit kholim)أَخ (بِڤِيت خُولِيم)
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
م-ر-ضHebrew root
מ-ר-צA mumarriḍ tends the marīḍ, the sick — root م-ر-ض, whose traditional Hebrew cousin is נמרץ 'grievous, sore' (ץ↔ض is the regular pairing), flipped by Modern Hebrew into מרץ 'energy'. The muCaCCiC shape is the intensive doer pattern, like Hebrew's piel participle.
Related Hebrew word:מרץmeretsمِرِتْس
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
فرْمْلِي
fermliפרמליFrom French infirmier: fermli.
In a phrase
الْمُمَرِّضَة فِي الْمُسْتَشْفَى
al-mumarriḍa fī l-mustashfāאל-ממרצ'ה פי אל-מסתשפאThe nurse is in the hospital.
Plural
مُمَرِّضُون
mumarriḍūnממרצ'וןsound masculine plural -ūn
Feminine
مُمَرِّضَة
mumarriḍaממרצ'ה