How to say "oven" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningoven
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
tannūrתנור
تنور
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
tanurتَانُور
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Not a coincidence — a shared inheritance: Hebrew תנור and Arabic tannūr both go back to Akkadian tinūru (via Aramaic tannūrā, already in Ugaritic tnr), the ancient clay oven that fed the whole Fertile Crescent. Spelled and pronounced almost identically in both languages today.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
The everyday Cairo oven is a furn.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
A different word: ferrān is the oven, and the neighbourhood bakery.
In a phrase
The bread is in the oven.
Plural
broken plural CaCāCīC — like سِكِّين→سَكَاكِين