How to say "geography" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaninggeography
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
جُغْرَافْيَا
jughrāfyāג'ע'ראפיא
جغرافيا
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
גאוגרפיה
ge'ografyaگِئُوگْرَافْيَا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Both languages borrowed Greek geōgraphía, 'earth-writing'. Arabic took it in the Middle Ages and, lacking a hard g, rendered its two g's as ج and غ; Hebrew took it much later, straight from European languages.
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In a phrase
خَرِيطَة فِي دَرْس الْجُغْرَافْيَا
kharīṭa fī dars al-jughrāfyāח'ריטה פי דרס אל-ג'ע'ראפיאa map in the geography lesson