How to say "fertilizer" in Arabic

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Meaningfertilizer

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سَمَاد

samādסמאד

سماد

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

דשן

deshenدِشِن

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

س-م-د

No real Hebrew relative, despite a tempting glance: samād looks like Hebrew שמד, 'to destroy' (הַשְׁמָדָה), and Arabic س can regularly answer Hebrew ש — but the meanings never meet, and no shared ancestry has been shown. The resemblance is only skin-deep.

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سَمَاد عُضْوِيّ
samād ʿuḍwīסמאד עצ'וי

organic fertilizer

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