How to say "horizon" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninghorizon
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أُفُق
ufuqאפק
أفق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אופק
ofekأُوفِك
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
أ-ف-قMedieval Hebrew philosophy borrowed אופק directly from Arabic ufuq. Translators like the Ibn Tibbon family, rendering Arabic science and philosophy into Hebrew, needed a precise word for the line where sky meets earth and simply carried this one over.
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In a phrase
عِنْدَ الْأُفُق
ʿinda l-ufuqענד אל-אפקat the horizon