How to say "silo, grain elevator" in Arabic
New wordMeaningsilo, grain elevator
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
صَوْمَعَة
ṣawmaʿaצומעה
صومعة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
סילו
siloسِيلُو
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
No Hebrew relative — Modern Hebrew simply borrowed the international word 'silo' outright (סילו). Ṣawmaʿa has an older, evocative history of its own: it is the classical word for a hermit's cell or a mosque's minaret, repurposed for the grain elevator's tower shape.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
صُومْعَة
ṣomʿaצומעהIn Morocco a ṣomʿa is a minaret, not a silo.
In a phrase
صَوْمَعَة قَمْح
ṣawmaʿa qamḥצומעה קמחa wheat silo