How to say "taxi" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningtaxi
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
تَاكْسِي
tāksīתאכסי
تاكسي
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מונית
monitمُونِيت
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Modern Hebrew's proper word for taxi is the native מונית ('the counting one', from the meter) — but everyday slang also just says טקסי, the same international loanword Arabic borrowed as تاكسي, both ultimately from French taximètre.
Related Hebrew word:טקסיtaksiتَاكْسِي
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
سِرْفِيس
servīsסרפיסA servīs is a shared taxi that runs a fixed route — a Levantine institution, from English/French 'service'.
In a phrase
أَخَذْتُ تَاكْسِي
akhadhtu tāksīאח'ד'ת תאכסיI took a taxi