How to say "meal" in Arabic
New wordMeaningmeal
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
وَجْبَة
wajbaוג'בה
وجبة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ארוחה
arukhaأَرُوخَا
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
و-ج-بNo Hebrew relative, but a tidy root story on the Arabic side alone: wajba comes from wajaba, 'to be due, incumbent' — a meal is literally 'what's owed' to the body at its appointed hour. The same root gives وَاجِب, 'homework, duty'.
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In a phrase
وَجْبَة خَفِيفَة
wajba khafīfaוג'בה ח'פיפהa light meal, a snack