How to say "giraffe" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninggiraffe
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
زَرَافَة
zarāfaזראפה
زرافة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ג'ירפה
jirafaجِيرَافَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ز-ر-فModern Hebrew's giraffa isn't native at all — it's a 20th-century re-borrowing of this very Arabic word, which had already traveled through Italian giraffa and French girafe centuries earlier. Say zarāfa and you're closer to the original.
Learn it
In a phrase
زَرَافَة طَوِيلَة
zarāfa ṭawīlaזראפה טוילהa tall giraffe
Plural
زَرَافَات
zarāfātזראפאתsound feminine plural -āt