Coronavirus vocabulary in Arabic
Thank you, @languagessi for giving me permission to use your vocabulary list as a base to this list.
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Anxiety | Alqalaq | القَلَقُ
Asian | Āsiāwiy(a) | آسيَوِيّـ/ـةً
Bottled water | Miyāhun muʿabbaʾa |مياهٌ مُعَبَّاةٌ
Canned food | Ṭaʿāmun muʿallab |طًعامٌ مُعَلَّبٌ
Chinese | Ṣiniyy(a) | صِينيّـ/ـة
Contagion, infection | ʿadwā | عَدْوَى
Contagious | Muʿdin | مُعْدٍ
Coronavirus | Virus Cornona | فيروس كورونا
Curfew | Ḥaẓru-ttajawwul | حظرُ التّجَوِّلِ
Deaths | Alwafayāt | الوَفَيات
Diarrhea | Ishāl | إسْهالٌ
Direct contact (transmission through touching an ill person or a surface touched by an ill person) | Ittiṣālun mubāšar | اتّصال مُباشَرٌ
Disease, illness | Maraḍ | مَرَضٌ
Droplet transmission | Intiqālul ʿadwā ʿan tarīqil-qutairāt |انْتِقالُ العَدْوى عَنْ طَريقِ القُطيرات
Epidemic | Wabāʾ | وَباءُ
Global health emergency | Ḥālatu ṭawāriʾin ṣiḥḥiyya | حَالة طَوارئ صِحّية
Hand disinfectant | Muʿaqqimul-aydī |مُعَقِمُ الأَيدي
Hospitalization | Idẖālul-mustašfā |إَدخال المُسْتَشْفى
Infected (person) |Muṣāb(a) | مُصابٌـ/ـة
Intensive care | Alʿināyatul-murakkaza |العِنايَةُ المُرَكَّزَةُ
Limit, restriction | Yuḥaddid | يحدِّدُ
Muscle pain | Alamun fil-ʿaḍalāt |أَلَمٌ في العَضَلاتِ
Old people | Kibāru-ssinn | كِبارُ السَّنِّ
Pandemic | Jāʾiḥa | جائِحة
Panic | Alhalaʿ | الهَلَعُ
Patient | Marīḍ(a) |مَريضٌـ /ـة
Personal hygiene | Annaẓāfatu-aššaẖṣiyya | النَّظافَةُ الشَّخْصِيةَّ
Pneumonia | iltihābun riʾawiyy | إلتهابُ رئويُّ
Prevention | Wiqāya | وِقايَةٌ
Quarantine | Ḥaǧrun ṣiḥḥiy | حَجْرٌ صِحِّيٌّ
Racism | Alʿunṣuriyya | العُنْصُرِيَّةُ
Remote study | Attaʿlīmu ʿan buʿd | التَّعليمُ عَنْ بُعْدٍ
Remote work | Alʿamalu ʿan buʿd | العَمَلُ عن بُعْدٍ
Risk group | Alfiʾātul-muʿarraḍatu lil-ẖaṭar | الفِئاتُ المعرَّضَةَ للخَطَر
Shortness of breath | Ṣuʿūbatun fi-ttanaffus | صُعوبَةٌ في التَّنَفُّسِ
Symptomless | Bilā aʿrāḍ | بلا أَعْراضٍ
To be transmitted | Yantaqil | يَنْتَقِلٌ
To close | Yuġliq | يُغلِقٌ
To cover one’s mouth | Taġṭiyatul-fam | تَغِطِيَةُ الفَمِ
To forbid, to ban, to prohibit | Ḥaẓr | حَظْرٌ
To get sick, to come down with | Yuṣābu bil-maraḍ | يُصابُ بالمَرَضِ
To hoard/monopolize | Iḥtikār | احْتِكارٌ
To recover | Yataʿāfā | يَتعافى
To spread | Yantašir | ينتَشِرُ
To stay at home | Albaqāʾu fil-manzil| البَقاءُ في المَنْزِلِ
To use a mask | Istiʿmālul qināʿ | اسْتعمالُ الِقناعِ
To wash one’s hands | Ġaslul-aydī | غَسْلٌ الأَيدي
Toilet paper | Waraqul-mirḥāḍ |وَرَقُ المِرْحاضِ
Travel ban | Ḥaẓru-ssafar | حَظْرُ السَّفَرِ
Vomiting | Taqayyiʾ|تَقَيُّء
Wuhan, China | Wuhān, Aṣṣīn | وهان، الصّينُ
Xenophobia | Ruhābul-ajānib | رُهابُ الأَجانِب