How to say "valley, dry riverbed" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningvalley, dry riverbed
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
wādīואדי
وادي
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
emekإِمِك
How the two words are related
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
و-د-يIsraeli Hebrew didn't bother translating this one — it borrowed wādī whole, spelled ואדי, for the dry streambed hikers cross after rain. The everyday Hebrew word for valley, עמק, is a completely different, unrelated root.
Related Hebrew word:ואדיvadiڤَادِي
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija wād — the Oued of maps — is any river or riverbed.
In a phrase
a deep valley
Plural
broken plural CiCCān (fiʿlān pattern; the final ن is a fixed part of the pattern, not a root letter, since the root's third radical ي is weak)