How to say "fence, hedge (field boundary)" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningfence, hedge (field boundary)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سِيَاج

siyājסיאג'

سياج

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

גדר

gaderگَادِر

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Arabic root

س-ي-ج

Hebrew root

ס-י-ג

Not a coincidence: Hebrew's own fence word, סְיָג — famous from the Mishnaic maxim עֲשׂוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה, 'make a fence around the Torah' — and Arabic سياج both trace back to the very same Aramaic word, סְיָגָא. Modern Hebrew's everyday גדר took a different route; סייג survives for the specifically figurative, precautionary kind of fence.

Related Hebrew word:סייגsyagسْيَاگ

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In a phrase

سِيَاج الْحَقْل
siyāj al-ḥaqlסיאג' אל-חקל

the field's fence

Plural

سِيَاجَات
siyājātסיאג'את

sound feminine plural -āt

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