How to say "weather" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningweather
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ṭaqsטקס
طقس
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
mezeg avirمِزِگ أَڤِير
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Ṭaqs and Hebrew טקס (ceremony) are the very same borrowed word — Greek táxis, 'arrangement, order' — Arabic took it through Aramaic (Syriac ṭaksā), while Mishnaic Hebrew borrowed it from Greek directly. The meanings split down the middle: Arabic kept the order of the skies (weather, and also church rites), Hebrew the order of proceedings — a ceremony.
Related Hebrew word:טקסtekesتِكِس
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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
In conversation Levantine asks kīf il-jaww? — literally 'how is the air?'
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
il-gaww ḥarr — the weather is hot.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
kifāsh l-jaww? — how is the weather?
In a phrase
the weather is nice today