How to say "physics" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningphysics
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
فِيزِيَاء
fīziyāʾפיזיאא
فيزياء
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פיזיקה
fizikaفِيزِيكَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Both come from Greek physikḗ, 'the study of nature' (phýsis). Arabic adapted the ending to its own -iyāʾ, the same ending as kīmiyāʾ; Hebrew kept the European -ika.
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In a phrase
قَوَانِين الْفِيزِيَاء
qawānīn al-fīziyāʾקואנין אל-פיזיאאthe laws of physics