How to say "village" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningvillage

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

قَرْيَة

qaryaקריה

قرية

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

כפר

kfarكْفَار

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ق-ر-ي

Hebrew root

ק-ר-י

Hebrew קריה — as in Kiryat Gat or Kiryat Shmona — is the same Semitic settlement word. Hebrew leans toward 'town'; Arabic settled on 'village'.

Related Hebrew word:קריהkiryaكِرْيَا

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

دُوَّار

duwwārדואר

Darija's village is a duwwār, originally a circle of tents.

قَرْيَة صَغِيرَة

qarya ṣaghīraקריה צע'ירה

a small village