How to say "calendar" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningcalendar
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
taqwīmתקוים
تقويم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
luakh shanaلُوَاخ شَانَا
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ق-و-مHebrew root
ק-ו-םBuilt on q-w-m, the same root as Hebrew קום, 'to stand, arise' — regular ق↔ק, و↔ו, م↔ם. Arabic taqwīm is literally 'a straightening, a setting right' (from qawwama, 'to make stand upright, correct'); a calendar is time set straight. Hebrew קום stayed close to the raw physical sense of standing up.
Related Hebrew word:קוםkumكُوم
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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
Everyday speech often reaches for this Persian loanword instead: rūznāme, 'day-book'.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's wall calendar is a natīga — elsewhere the word for 'result'.
In a phrase
an Arabic calendar
Plural
broken plural CaCāCīC.