How to say "button" in Arabic
New wordMeaningbutton
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
زِرّ
zirrזר
زر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
כפתור
kaftorكَافْتُور
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ز-ر-رSome old dictionaries compared the golden זֵר molding around the Ark (Exodus 25) to Arabic zirr, but the connection is speculative — safer to file this one under 'learn it fresh'. Zirr also covers electric buttons and keys.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
زُرَار
zurārזרארCairo's button is a zurār.
In a phrase
اِضْغَط عَلَى الزِّرّ
iḍghaṭ ʿalā z-zirrאצ'ע'ט עלא א-זרPress the button!
Plural
أَزْرَار
azrārאזרארbroken plural ʾaCCāC — like كِيس→أَكْيَاس