How to say "fare, wage" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningfare, wage
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
ujraאג'רה
أجرة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ta'arifتَاءَارِيف
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
أ-ج-رHebrew root
א-ג-רArabic أ-ج-ر, 'to hire, pay wages', lines up with Aramaic אגרא 'wage, hire' (Akkadian agāru 'to hire'), the source of Hebrew אגרה 'fee, toll' — ج regularly answers ג. Both sides circle a payment for a service: Hebrew kept it as an official fee (אגרה), Arabic as a wage or fare (أجرة). Hebrew א-ג-ר 'to gather, store' (אוגר) is probably a separate root.
Related Hebrew word:אגרהagraأَگْرَا
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Hard g in Cairo: ugra.
In a phrase
the taxi fare
Plural
broken plural CuCūC — like بَيْت→بُيُوت