How to say "yoke (for oxen)" in Arabic
New wordMeaningyoke (for oxen)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
نِير
nīrניר
نير
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עול
olأُول
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
ن-ي-رThe Hebrew look-alike is ניר, 'freshly broken, tilled ground' (Jeremiah's נִירוּ לָכֶם נִיר, 'break up your fallow ground'): a yoke and a plowed field make a tempting pair, but no shared root has been shown. The Arabic word matches Aramaic nīrā and Akkadian nīru, 'yoke'; Hebrew's own yoke is עול.
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نِير الثَّوْر
nīr ath-thawrניר א-ת'ורthe ox's yoke