How to say "school year" in Arabic
CognateMeaningschool year
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
سَنَة دِرَاسِيَّة
sana dirāsiyyaסנה דראסיה
سنة دراسية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שנת לימודים
shnat limudimشْنَات لِيمُودِيم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
س-ن-وHebrew root
ש-נ-הSana is Hebrew שנה, with the usual Arabic s ↔ Hebrew שׁ match. Dirāsiyya, 'of study', has a cousin too: د-ر-س ↔ ד-ר-ש, as in מדרש.
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In a phrase
بِدَايَة السَّنَة الدِّرَاسِيَّة
bidāyat as-sana ad-dirāsiyyaבדאית א-סנה א-דראסיהthe start of the school year
More words from this root
More in School & Study
- semester, school termfaṣl dirāsīفَصْل دِرَاسِيّמחצית
- summer vacational-ʿuṭla aṣ-ṣayfiyyaالْعُطْلَة الصَّيْفِيَّةהחופש הגדול
- school trip, field tripriḥla madrasiyyaرِحْلَة مَدْرَسِيَّةטיול שנתי
- report cardkashf al-ʿalāmātكَشْف الْعَلَامَاتתעודה
- seventh gradeaṣ-ṣaff as-sābiʿالصَّفّ السَّابِعכיתה ז׳
- matriculation exams, high-school finalsat-tawjīhīالتَّوْجِيهِيבגרות