How to say "married" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningmarried
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
mutazawwijמתזוג'
متزوج
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
nasuiنَاسُوي
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ز-و-جHebrew root
ז-ו-גNot actually an inherited Semitic root, despite the perfect match: both Hebrew zug (זוג) and Arabic zawj (زوج) trace back to Greek zygón (ζυγόν), 'yoke' — borrowed into Aramaic as zugā and from there into Hebrew and Arabic alike. Arabic zawj means 'spouse' on its own; mutazawwij, 'married', literally means 'having become paired.'
Related Hebrew word:זוגzugزُوگ
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo says mitgawwiz.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: mzewwej.
In a phrase
he is married