How to say "ticket" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningticket
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
tadhkiraתד'כרה
تذكرة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
kartisكَارْتِيس
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ذ-ك-رHebrew root
ז-כ-רA tadhkira is literally "a reminder" — from the same root as Hebrew זכר/זיכרון ("remember/memory"): ذ↔ז, ك↔כ, ر↔ר, a clean three-letter match. Hebrew kept the abstract sense; Arabic narrowed the same root to a specific reminder-object — a ticket, etymologically, is just a paper that reminds you where to sit.
Related Hebrew word:זכרzakharزَاخَار
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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
Cairo's shape, with z for ذ: tazkara.
In a phrase
the movie ticket
Plural
broken plural taCāCiC
The root family
ذ-ك-رז-כ-ר· remembering
Memory with the regular ז↔ذ swap: dhakara is זכר. Both languages also use this root for "male" — זכר and dhakar — an ancient shared polysemy. Arabic turned a reminder into the everyday tadhkira, a ticket, while Hebrew built מזכרת (souvenir) and תזכורת (reminder) from the very same instinct.
- ذَكَرَ dhakarahe mentioned, rememberedזָכַרhe remembered
- ذِكْر dhikrremembrance; Sufi devotional chantזֵכֶרmemory (of)
- تَذْكِرَة tadhkiraticket — literally "a reminder"תִּזְכֹּרֶתreminder
- ذِكْرَى dhikrāmemory, anniversaryזִכָּרוֹןmemory, memorial
- ذَكَر dhakarmaleזָכָרmale — the same double meaning
- مُذَكِّرَة mudhakkiranotebook; memorandumמַזְכֶּרֶתsouvenir