How to say "pharmacy" in Arabic
New wordMeaningpharmacy
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ṣaydaliyyaצידליה
صيدلية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
beit mirkakhatبِيت مِرْكَاخَات
How the two words are related
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
No Hebrew relative for the everyday word — בית מרקחת is built on an unrelated root, ר-ק-ח 'to blend, perfume'. صيدلية itself isn't Semitic at its core either: صيدلي 'pharmacist' is usually traced through Persian back to Sanskrit candana, 'sandalwood' — a nod to how much of the old pharmacist's stock came in along the spice routes.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's older word is agzakhāna; ṣaydaliyya is heard too.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
From French pharmacien: l-farmasyān.
In a phrase
a nearby pharmacy
Plural
sound feminine plural in -āt