How to say "official (Arabic) → official, legit, for real (Israeli slang)" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningofficial (Arabic) → official, legit, for real (Israeli slang)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
رَسْمِيّ
rasmiyyרסמי
رسمي
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
רסמי
rasmiرَاسْمِي
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ر-س-مHebrew root
ר-ש-םSame root as this app's leisure entry رَسْم/רשם: Arabic kept the sketch-and-inscribe sense that grew into 'official', and Hebrew independently built the identical word, רשמי. Israeli slang then re-borrowed the Arabic pronunciation on top of its own cognate, spelling it with ס instead of ש — זה רסמי hits differently than the bureaucratic זה רשמי.
Related Hebrew word:רשמיrishmiرِشْمِي
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In a phrase
هٰذَا رَسْمِيّ الْآن
hādhā rasmiyy al-ānהאד'א רסמי אל-אןthis is official now
Feminine
رَسْمِيَّة
rasmiyyaרסמיהMore words from this root
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