How to say "seedling, sapling" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningseedling, sapling

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

شَتْلَة

shatlaשתלה

شتلة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שתיל

shatilشَاتِيل

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ش-ت-ل

Hebrew root

ש-ת-ל

Hebrew שתיל and Arabic shatla are the same root and the same specific meaning: a young plant ready to be transplanted — exactly what fills a mashtal/משתלה.

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In a phrase

شَتْلَة صَغِيرَة

shatla ṣaghīraשתלה צע'ירה

a small seedling

Plural

شَتْلَات

shatlātשתלאת

sound feminine plural -āt

More words from this root

plant nurserymashtalمَشْتَلמשתלה