How to say "palace" in Arabic
New wordMeaningpalace
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قَصْر
qaṣrקצר
قصر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ארמון
armonأَرْمُون
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ق-ص-رNo Hebrew relative — but قصر has traveled far to get here: many linguists trace it to Latin castrum 'fort, camp' (the same root behind Spanish alcázar and English castle), most likely borrowed during the Roman presence in the Levant and North Africa.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
قَصْر
ʾaṣrאצרCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʾaṣr.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
قْصر
qṣerקצרDarija qṣer; the fortified desert villages are spelled ksar on maps.
In a phrase
قَصْر جَمِيل
qaṣr jamīlקצר ג'מילa beautiful palace
Plural
قُصُور
quṣūrקצורbroken plural CuCūC — like بَيْت→بُيُوت