How to say "student, pupil" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningstudent, pupil
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
tilmīdhתלמיד'
تلميذ
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
talmidتَالْمِيد
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Hebrew root
ל-מ-דArabic tilmīdh came in through Aramaic from Akkadian talmīdu 'apprentice', built on the same learn-root you know from the Talmud. Hebrew תלמיד is built on the native root ל-מ-ד 'learn' (which Akkadian lamādu shares), so Hebrew feels the word from the inside while Arabic, with no l-m-d root, carries it as a pure loan.
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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
City dialects turn dh into z: tilmīz.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo, too, says tilmīz.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija turns ذ into d: telmīd — which sounds exactly like Hebrew תלמיד.
In a phrase
The pupil is at school.
Plural
broken plural CaCāCīC, the four-consonant pattern — like مفتاح→مفاتيح (miftāḥ→mafātīḥ)