How to say "road" in Arabic
New wordMeaningroad
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
طَرِيق
ṭarīqטריק
طريق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
דרך
derekhدِرِخ
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
ط-ر-قLearn it
On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
طَرِيق
ṭarīʾטריאqāf becomes a glottal stop in urban Levantine: ṭarīʾ.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
طَرِيق
ṭarīʾטריאSame in Cairo: ṭarīʾ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
طْرِيق
ṭrīqטריקDarija: ṭrīq, q kept and first vowel gone.
In a phrase
الطَّرِيق طَوِيل
aṭ-ṭarīq ṭawīlא-טריק טוילthe road is long
Plural
طُرُق
ṭuruqטרקbroken plural CuCuC — like مَدِينَة→مُدُن