How to say "peacock" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningpeacock
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-سṬāwūs 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'מילa beautiful peacock
Plural
طَوَاوِيس
ṭawāwīsטואויסbroken plural CaCāCīC