How to say "to fly" in Arabic

Shifted meaning

Meaningto fly

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

طَارَ

ṭāraטאר

طار

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

טס

tasتَاس

How the two words are related

Shifted meaning

Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.

Arabic root

ط-ي-ر

Hebrew root

ט-ו-ס

This is the verb behind ṭāʾira, 'airplane,' already in this app. Hebrew's own 'fly' word, טס, isn't a native root at all — it's an Aramaic import, and (per the airplane entry) some trace it to a rare biblical cousin, יטוש (Job 9:26), linked to Arabic طاش, 'to dart about,' through the regular שׂ↔ش shift. طار and טס are best called neighbors in one loose Semitic 'flight' family, not a clean one-to-one match.

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In a phrase

طَارَ الطَّائِر فَوْقَ الْجَبَل
ṭāra aṭ-ṭāʾir fawq al-jabalטאר א-טאאר פוק אל-ג'בל

The bird flew above the mountain

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