How to say "to descend, go down; to get off" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningto descend, go down; to get off
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
nazalaנזל
نزل
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
yaradيَارَاد
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ن-ز-لHebrew root
נ-ז-לTraditionally compared: Arabic nazala, 'to descend, come down', and Hebrew נזל, 'to flow, drip', are widely thought to share a root — the picture in both is something moving downward, whether a traveler dismounting or water trickling. Modern Hebrew's plain 'go down' is ירד, an unrelated root.
Related Hebrew word:נזלnazalنَازَال
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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's past tense takes the CiCiC shape: nizil.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: nzel.
In a phrase
He descended the mountain at sunset