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How to say "computer science" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningcomputer science

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

عِلْم الْحَاسُوب

ʿilm al-ḥāsūbעלם אל-חאסוב

علم الحاسوب

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מדעי המחשב

mad'ei hamakhshevمَادْئِي هَامَاخْشِڤ

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ح-س-ب

Hebrew root

ח-ש-ב

Both languages named the computer after the same root, 'to count, reckon': Arabic ḥāsūb, Hebrew מחשב. Arabic s answers Hebrew שׁ here exactly as in salām ↔ shalom.

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In a phrase

أَدْرُس عِلْم الْحَاسُوب
adrus ʿilm al-ḥāsūbאדרס עלם אל-חאסוב

I study computer science.

The root family

ح-س-بח-ש-ב· reckoning

One counting root, two careers: Hebrew ח-ש-ב drifted from reckoning to thinking (חשב), while Arabic stayed at the ledger — ḥisāb is your restaurant bill, exactly חשבון. Then both modern languages, coining a word for computer, reached for the very same root: Hebrew built מחשב, Arabic built ḥāsūb.

  • حِسَاب ḥisābbill, account, arithmeticחֶשְׁבּוֹןbill, account
  • حَسَبَ ḥasabahe counted, calculatedחָשַׁבhe thought — counting turned inward
  • حَاسُوب ḥāsūbcomputerמַחְשֵׁבcomputer — same root, same century
  • حَاسِبَة ḥāsibacalculator (āla ḥāsiba)
  • مُحَاسِب muḥāsibaccountant
  • حَسَب ḥasabaccording to (bi-ḥasab)

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