How to say "hill" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghill
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
تَلّ
tallתל
تل
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
תל
telتِل
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ت-ل-لHebrew root
ת-ל-לTall is tel, letter for letter. You already know this word from the map: Tel Aviv's tel is exactly this — and Arabic borrows the whole name back as تل أبيب, tall abīb.
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In a phrase
تَلّ صَغِير
tall ṣaghīrתל צע'ירa small hill
Plural
تِلَال
tilālתלאלbroken plural CiCāC — like جَبَل→جِبَال