How to say "glove" in Arabic
New wordMeaningglove
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قُفَّاز
quffāzקפאז
قفاز
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
כפפה
kfafaكْفَافَا
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
ق-ف-زNot from the same root as כף 'palm' (see that entry in the body vocabulary) — Hebrew כפפה is homegrown from כ-פ-ף, while Arabic sidesteps כף entirely with quffāz, whose own root ق-ف-ز usually means 'to jump'. Two languages, two completely different mental images for the same five-fingered object.
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Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
جُوَانْتِي
guwantiגואנתיFrom Italian guanti: a pair of gloves is guwanti.
In a phrase
قُفَّازَات صُوف
quffāzāt ṣūfקפאזאת צוףwool gloves
Plural
قُفَّازَات
quffāzātקפאזאתsound feminine plural -āt