How to say "wedding" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningwedding
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ʿursערס
عرس
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
khatunaخَاتُونَا
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ع-ر-سHebrew root
א-ר-שSame root as the bride entry's ʿarūs: traditionally compared to Hebrew ארוסין ("betrothal") despite the irregular ע-ר-ס/א-ר-ש consonant mismatch that makes linguists hedge. The semantic drift is tidy either way — Hebrew froze the word at the engagement, Arabic pushed it all the way to the wedding day.
Related Hebrew word:ארוסיןerusinإِرُوسِين
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
A different word: in Cairo a wedding is a faraḥ, literally 'joy'.
In a phrase
a beautiful wedding
Plural
broken plural aCCāC