How to say "here you go / please, go ahead" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaninghere you go / please, go ahead

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

تَفَضَّل

tafaḍḍalתפצ'ל

تفضل

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

בבקשה, הנה

bevakasha, hineبِڤَاكَاشَا، هِينِي

How the two words are related

Loanword

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

Arabic root

ف-ض-ل

Israeli slang took this exact imperative and folded it into a homegrown-looking Hebrew verb, hitpadel (התפדל), 'to stall while making a show of politeness' — a playful loan reshaped as a hitpael, not an inherited root (had it been inherited, Arabic ض would regularly show up as Hebrew צ, not ד).

Related Hebrew word:התפדלhitpadelهِتْپَادِل

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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

اِتْفَضَّل

itfaḍḍalאתפצ'ל

Egyptian/Levantine adds a prosthetic vowel: itfaḍḍal, itfaḍḍalī (to a woman), itfaḍḍalū (plural). Said handing something over or waving someone ahead — same root ف-ض-ل as مِن فَضْلِكَ, 'please,' in the base set.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

اِتْفَضَّل

itfaḍḍalאתפצ'ל

Cairo says itfaḍḍal too — itfaḍḍalī to a woman, itfaḍḍalū to a group.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

تْفضّل

tfeḍḍelתפצ'ל

Darija: tfeḍḍel, without the helping vowel.

In a phrase

تَفَضَّلْ، اِجْلِس هُنَا

tafaḍḍal, ijlis hunāתפצ'ל, אג'לס הנא

here you go, sit here

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