How to say "peacock" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningpeacock

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

طَاوُوس

ṭāwūsטאווס

طاووس

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

טַוָּס

tavasتَاڤَاس

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Arabic root

ط-و-س

Ṭāwūs and tavas are the same borrowed word, both ultimately from Greek taōs (itself from an Indic source) — a rare case where Hebrew and Arabic borrowed the identical foreign word rather than sharing a native Semitic root.

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In a phrase

طَاوُوس جَمِيل
ṭāwūs jamīlטאווס ג'מיל

a beautiful peacock

Plural

طَوَاوِيس
ṭawāwīsטואויס

broken plural CaCāCīC

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