How to say "necktie" in Arabic
New wordMeaningnecktie
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
rabṭat ʿunuqרבטת ענק
ربطة عنق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
anivaأَنِيڤَا
How the two words are related
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ر-ب-طRoot ر-ب-ط 'to tie, bind' also gives رِباط (ribāṭ), a fortified frontier post whose defenders 'tied themselves' to the cause — the likely origin of the word 'marabout'. No Hebrew cousin, though: the semantic parallel, קשר 'to tie, connect', comes from its own unrelated root ק-ש-ר.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
The everyday word in speech, straight from French cravate; rabṭat ʿunuq is the formal MSA phrase.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo says karafatta, stressed on the doubled t.
In a phrase
He wears a blue necktie.
Plural
sound feminine plural -āt on the first element