How to say "equality" in Arabic
CognateMeaningequality
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُسَاوَاة
musāwāhמסאואה
مساواة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שוויון
shivyonشِڤْيُون
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
س-و-يHebrew root
ש-ו-השוויון and مساواة both grow from the same root, ש-ו-ה/س-و-ي, "to be equal, level." Hebrew שווה means both "equal" and "worth [a price]"; Arabic splits that pair between مساوٍ, "equal," and the verb يساوي, "is worth." And سواء, "equally, whether," lives on in spoken Arabic as sawa, "together."
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In a phrase
الْمُسَاوَاة بَيْنَ الْجَمِيع
al-musāwāh bayna al-jamīʿאל-מסאואה בין אל-ג'מיעequality among everyone