How to say "sheet, bedsheet" in Arabic
New wordMeaningsheet, bedsheet
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
شَرْشَف
sharshafשרשף
شرشف
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
סדין
sadinسَادِين
How the two words are related
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No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
No Hebrew relative — sharshaf is a Turkish loan (çarşaf, itself from Persian) spread across Levantine Arabic; formal MSA prefers مِلَاءَة. Hebrew's own סדין is a much older, unrelated word, already handed out as linen wraps in Samson's riddle-prize (Judges 14) and stitched by the diligent wife of Proverbs 31.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مِلَايَة
milāyaמלאיהA different word: milāya is the Cairo bedsheet.
In a phrase
فَرَشَ الشَّرْشَف عَلَى السَّرِير
farasha ash-sharshaf ʿalā s-sarīrפרש א-שרשף עלא א-סרירHe spread the sheet on the bed.
Plural
شَرَاشِف
sharāshifשראשףbroken plural CaCāCiC — like سِكِّين→سَكَاكِين