How to say "mint" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningmint
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
نَعْنَاع
naʿnāʿנענאע
نعناع
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
נענע
nanaنَانَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Hebrew נענע is borrowed straight from Arabic naʿnāʿ — the mint in your תה נענע kept its Arabic name. Order shāy bi-naʿnāʿ and you are saying nearly the same thing twice.
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In a phrase
شَاي بِنَعْنَاع
shāy bi-naʿnāʿשאי בנענאעtea with mint