How to say "printer" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningprinter

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

طَابِعَة

ṭābiʿaטאבעה

طابعة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מדפסת

madpesetمَادْپِسِت

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ط-ب-ع

Hebrew root

ט-ב-ע

ṭābiʿa, 'printer', is the active participle of ṭabaʿa, 'to stamp, imprint, print' — precisely Hebrew ט-ב-ע, the root behind טֶבַע 'nature' (literally 'the stamped-in character of a thing') and מַטְבֵּעַ 'coin' (a disc stamped with an image). Printing, nature, and currency turn out to share one root in both languages: all three are about the stamp that gives something its character.

Related Hebrew word:מטבעmatbeaمَتْبِيَا

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In a phrase

الطَّابِعَة لَا تَطْبَع
aṭ-ṭābiʿa lā taṭbaʿא-טאבעה לא תטבע

The printer isn't printing.

Plural

طَابِعَات
ṭābiʿātטאבעאת

sound feminine plural -āt.

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