How to say "painter (house painter, dyer)" in Arabic
CognateMeaningpainter (house painter, dyer)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ṣabbāghצבאע'
صباغ
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
tsabaتْسَابَا
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ص-ب-غHebrew root
צ-ב-עAs exact as cognates get: root ص-ب-غ is letter for letter Hebrew צ-ב-ע (غ regularly answers ע — met already in the dye entry, ṣibgha/צבע), and both languages dress their painter in the very same professions mold, CaCCāC/qattāl: ṣabbāgh and Hebrew's own צַבָּע are the same word, twice.
Related Hebrew word:צבעtsabaتْسَابَا
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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
Everyday speech usually calls a house painter dahhān (from دهن 'oil, grease'); ṣabbāgh leans more toward 'dyer'.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's house painter is a naʾʾāsh (naqqāsh, 'engraver').
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: ṣebbāgh — in Morocco the MSA word is the everyday one.
In a phrase
The painter paints the wall.
Plural
sound masculine plural -ūn