How to say "spokesperson" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningspokesperson
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مُتَحَدِّث
mutaḥaddithמתחדת'
متحدث
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
דובר
doverدُوڤِر
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ح-د-ثHebrew root
ח-ד-שSame root ح-د-ث as حادث 'accident' elsewhere in this list, cognate with Hebrew חדש, 'new'. Arabic stretched that newness into conversation itself: taḥaddatha, 'to talk, to converse about what's new' — so a مُتَحَدِّث, spokesperson, is literally 'the one who tells the news'.
Related Hebrew word:חדשkhadashخَادَاش
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In a phrase
مُتَحَدِّث بِاسْم الْحُكُومَة
mutaḥaddith bi-ism al-ḥukūmaמתחדת' באסם אל-חכומהa government spokesperson
Plural
مُتَحَدِّثُون
mutaḥaddithūnמתחדת'וןSound masculine plural -ūn.