How to say "spring, wellspring" in Arabic
CognateMeaningspring, wellspring
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَنْبُوع
yanbūʿינבוע
ينبوع
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מעיין
ma'ayanمَاءَايَان
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ن-ب-عHebrew root
נ-ב-עA clean match: Arabic ن-ب-ع, 'to gush, spring forth', is Hebrew's own נ-ב-ע — 'a spring welling up' (מעיין נובע) uses this exact verb. Hebrew's everyday noun for a spring, מעיין, comes from a different root (עין, 'eye' — a spring as the 'eye' of the earth), but the verb underneath the two words is the same family.
Related Hebrew word:נבעnavaنَاڤَا
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In a phrase
يَنْبُوع مَاء
yanbūʿ māʾינבוע מאאa water spring
Plural
يَنَابِيع
yanābīʿינאביעbroken plural — the regular pattern for this yaCCūC noun shape