How to say "tree" in Arabic

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Meaningtree

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

شَجَرَة

shajaraשג'רה

شجرة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

עץ

etsإِتْس

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ش-ج-ر

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

شَجْرَة

shajraשג'רה

Levantine drops the middle vowel: shajra.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

شَجَرَة

shagaraשגרה

With Cairo's hard g: shagara.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

شجْرَة

shejraשג'רה

شَجَرَة زَيْتُون

shajarat zaytūnשג'רת זיתון

an olive tree

أَشْجَار

ashjārאשג'אר

broken plural aCCāC; unmarked شَجَر is the collective — trees in general