German

324 words that reached German from Semitic languages. Extracted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unreviewed.

AbaArabic · “aba”
AbiaModern Hebrew · “a male given name from Hebrew”
AbrahamModern Hebrew · “Abraham”
AbramModern Hebrew · “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to Eng”
AbraschArabic · “abrash (variation or deviation of a colour in Or”
Abu DhabiEnglish · “Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirate”
AccumModern Hebrew · “a rare surname from Hebrew”
achelnModern Hebrew · “to eat”
AdamModern Hebrew · “Adam”
Addis AbebaAmharic · “Addis Ababa (the capital of Ethiopia)”
AdmiralArabic · “admiral (male or of unspecified gender)”
AdonaiModern Hebrew · “Adonai (one of the names of God)”
AischeArabic · “a female given name from Arabic”
AlchemieArabic · “alchemy”
AleppoArabic · “Aleppo (a city in Syria)”
AlgebraArabic · “algebra”
AlgierArabic · “Algiers (the capital city of Algeria)”
AliArabic · “Ali (name)”
AlkaliArabic · “alkali”
AlkoholArabic · “alcohol, ethanol (substance)”
AlkovenArabic · “alcove, particularly: a bed built or let into th”
AllahArabic · “Allah (God in Islam)”
AlmanachByzantine Greek · “almanac, yearbook”
amenModern Hebrew · “amen”
AmmanArabic · “Amman (the capital city of Jordan)”
AqalArabic · “agal (headband worn by Arab men)”
ArtischockeArabic · “artichoke (edible plant related to the thistle)”
AschkenasiModern Hebrew · “Ashkenazi”
AskariArabic · “askari”
AssadArabic · “a surname, notably borne by Syrian presidents Ha”
AssyrienAkkadian · “Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and”
AtlasArabic · “atlas satin”
BaalProto-Semitic · “Baal (Semitic heathen god)”
BaldachinArabic · “canopy, dais, baldaquin (ornamental roof over an”
BaldowerModern Hebrew · “tipster, insider who gives advice to criminals”
BamiaArabic · “okra”
BarchentArabic · “fustian, barracan, a kind of rough and dense clo”
BeduineArabic · “Bedouin”
BehemothModern Hebrew · “behemoth”
BeizModern Hebrew · “pub, bar”
BenzoeArabic · “benzoin”
BerberAncient Greek · “Berber person”
BethanienAramaic · “Bethany”
BisamModern Hebrew · “musk (now chiefly zoology, never used of synthet”
BocherModern Hebrew · “young man who has not yet reached adulthood; you”
BoheiModern Hebrew · “fuss, ado”
CabanMiddle Persian · “pea coat”
ChaimModern Hebrew · “a male given name of Jewish usage”
ChamezYiddish · “chametz (leavened bread)”
ChanukkiaModern Hebrew · “hanukkiah (an eight- or more often nine-branched”
ChassidModern Hebrew · “Hassid”
ChawerModern Hebrew · “honorary title given to a distinguished Jewish s”
CherubBiblical Hebrew · “cherub”
ChuzpeAramaic · “chutzpah”
CidreModern Hebrew · “cider, sparkling apple wine”
DarsArabic · “A lesson on a topic in the Qurʾān or Sunna, dars”
DesmanModern Hebrew · “desman (animal)”
DirhamArabic · “dirham”
DruseArabic · “Druze”
DschihadArabic · “jihad (holy war undertaken by Muslims)”
DschinnArabic · “jinn”
DschunkeJavanese · “junk (Chinese sailing vessel)”
dufteModern Hebrew · “good, great, sweet”
EdenModern Hebrew · “Eden”
EjaletArabic · “eyalet (a former administrative division or prov”
ElixierAncient Greek · “potion (liquid which is medicinal and/or magical”
EmanuelModern Hebrew · “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew, equivale”
EmirArabic · “emir (title of a prince, commander or other lead”
EphraimBiblical Hebrew · “Ephraim”
EsauBiblical Hebrew · “Esau”
EsterBiblical Hebrew · “Esther (biblical character)”
EstragonAncient Greek · “tarragon (perennial herb Artemisia dracunculus)”
EzzesModern Hebrew · “advice, hint, information”
FalafelArabic · “a falafel ball”
FatwaArabic · “fatwa (scholar's written response to a religious”
FellacheArabic · “fellah (peasant etc.)”
FitnaArabic · “fitna, sedition or civil war among Muslims”
FlusArabic · “money, gwop”
für lauModern Hebrew · “for free”
GanoveModern Hebrew · “thief, fraudster, member of the criminal underwo”
GaunerModern Hebrew · “petty thief, crook, racketeer”
GazaArabic · “Gaza (city in Palestine)”
GazelleArabic · “gazelle”
GenetteAndalusian Arabic · “genet (any mammal of the genus Genetta)”
GhuslArabic · “ghusl (washing required after major ritual impur”
GizehModern Standard Arabic · “Giza (a city in Egypt)”
GoiModern Hebrew · “goy, gentile”
GolemModern Hebrew · “golem (creature from clay)”
GolusModern Hebrew · “the Jewish Diaspora”
Gott mit unsKoine Greek · “"God is with us"”
guten RutschModern Hebrew · “happy New Year”
HabeschArabic · “Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)”
HabibiArabic · “darling”
HabubArabic · “haboob”
HadithArabic · “hadith”
HamasienGe'ez · “Hamasien (a historical province of Eritrea)”
HandscharOttoman Turkish · “khanjar (oriental dagger)”
HaremArabic · “harem”
HaschischArabic · “hashish”
HavarieArabic · “accident, emergency (most often of a ship); ship”
HennaArabic · “ellipsis of Hennastrauch: a shrub, Lawsonia iner”
HidschabArabic · “hijab”
HidschraArabic · “Hijra”
HinModern Hebrew · “hin”
HiobModern Hebrew · “Job”
HisbollahArabic · “Hezbollah (a Lebanese Shi'a Islamist political p”
hosiannaBiblical Hebrew · “hosanna”
HummusArabic · “hummus”
HuthiArabic · “Houthi”
IfritArabic · “ifrit”
ImamArabic · “anyone who leads a group of Muslims in prayer”
IntifadaArabic · “intifada”
IradeArabic · “irade”
IrakArabic · “Iraq (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)”
IsaakBiblical Hebrew · “Isaac (biblical character)”
IscheModern Hebrew · “chick, girl, girlfriend”
IslamArabic · “Islam”
JahweBiblical Hebrew · “Yahweh (personal name of God)”
JakobusModern Hebrew · “James (one of several New Testament personalitie”
JasminPersian · “jasmine”
jemandem Saures gebenModern Hebrew · “to let someone have it”
JemenProto-Semitic · “Yemen (a country in West Asia in the Middle East”
JibbitArabic · “joint, spliff (a marijuana cigarette)”
JiddischModern Hebrew · “Yiddish (language)”
JoachimBiblical Hebrew · “a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim”
JohannesBiblical Hebrew · “John.”
Jom KippurModern Hebrew · “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”
JoppeArabic · “loden jacket”
JordanBiblical Hebrew · “Jordan (a river in West Asia in the Middle East,”
JoschaBiblical Hebrew · “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew, equivale”
JotProto-Semitic · “The letter J in the Latin and German alphabet.”
JudasModern Hebrew · “a male given name”
JudeModern Hebrew · “Jew”
JudithModern Hebrew · “a female given name, equivalent to English Judit”
JuttaModern Hebrew · “a female given name”
KaabaArabic · “Kaaba (cubical stone building in Mecca)”
KabaleModern Hebrew · “intrigue, deceit”
KaddischModern Hebrew · “kaddish”
KadiFrench · “qadi (judge in Islamic law)”
KaffModern Hebrew · “backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck (a backwards, bor”
KaffeeArabic · “coffee (beverage made by infusing coffee beans i”
KafferArabic · “kaffir”
KafferModern Hebrew · “idiot”
KahbaArabic · “bitch”
KairoArabic · “Cairo (the capital city of Egypt)”
KaliArabic · “potash (Short form of Kalisalz)”
KalleModern Hebrew · “bride”
KamelLatin · “camel”
KampferArabic · “camphor”
KanaanModern Hebrew · “Canaan (region)”
kaporesModern Hebrew · “broken, damaged; defective”
KaraffeArabic · “carafe”
KasparOld Persian · “Caspar of the Magi”
KasperOld Persian · “clown (normally a puppet)”
KassiberModern Hebrew · “secret message (clandestine communication betwee”
KatArabic · “khat (drug produced from Catha edulis)”
KattunArabic · “calico (kind of cotton fabric)”
KebabTurkish · “Kebab; any Oriental-style grilled meat, or a dis”
KibbuzModern Hebrew · “kibbutz (a collective community in Israel that w”
kiebitzenModern Hebrew · “to kibitz, to observe curiously, possibly giving”
KiesModern Hebrew · “dosh, dough (money)”
KittelArabic · “overall, smock; white coat”
KnastModern Hebrew · “jail, the nick, the slammer”
KnessetModern Hebrew · “the Knesset”
KoberModern Hebrew · “a room in a brothel used for prostitution”
KofferModern Hebrew · “idiot, fool”
KoheletModern Hebrew · “Ecclesiastes (book of the Bible)”
KohlModern Hebrew · “nonsense; idle talk”
KorModern Hebrew · “cor (unit of measure)”
KoranArabic · “Qur'an”
koscherModern Hebrew · “kosher”
Krav MagaModern Hebrew · “Krav Maga”
Krethi und PlethiBiblical Hebrew · “every Tom, Dick and Harry; all kinds of differen”
KufiyaEnglish · “kufiyeh”
LackSanskrit · “varnish, finish (smooth layer of coating typical”
LailaFinnish · “a female given name”
LasurPersian · “glaze, scumble”
LauteArabic · “lute”
LeviathanBiblical Hebrew · “leviathan”
LissabonLatin · “Lisbon (the capital city of Portugal)”
LotModern Hebrew · “Lot (biblical character)”
MacheloikesModern Hebrew · “machination, scheming”
machulleModern Hebrew · “bankrupt; broke”
MackeModern Hebrew · “quirk (odd behaviour of someone)”
MagazinEnglish · “magazine (periodical)”
makaberArabic · “macabre”
MalocheModern Hebrew · “labour, toil”
MariaModern Hebrew · “a female given name, equivalent to English Mary”
MasselModern Hebrew · “undeserved, unexpected luck”
massierenPortuguese · “to massage”
MatratzeMedieval Latin · “mattress (a pad often of soft cushiony material ”
MatthäusAramaic · “Matthew (apostle and evangelist, also short for ”
MatzeModern Hebrew · “matzo”
MauschelModern Hebrew · “a Jew, especially a poor and/or Yiddish-speaking”
MedresseArabic · “madrasa (Islamic school of higher learning)”
MehdiArabic · “a male given name from Persian”
MenetekelAramaic · “writing on the wall”
MenoraModern Hebrew · “menorah”
MessiasBiblical Hebrew · “The Messiah / messiah (Jesus Christ, Jesus the M”
MesusaModern Hebrew · “mezuzah”
MethusalemModern Hebrew · “Methuselah”
MezzieModern Hebrew · “bargain (purchase, transaction)”
MichaBiblical Hebrew · “a male given name from Hebrew”
MichäasBiblical Hebrew · “the book of Micah”
MichaelBiblical Hebrew · “a male given name of common usage”
MinarettArabic · “minaret (mosque tower)”
MirjamModern Hebrew · “Miriam.”
MischnaModern Hebrew · “Mishna”
MischpokeModern Hebrew · “family”
MitzwaModern Hebrew · “mitzvah (any of the 613 commandments of Jewish l”
MohammedArabic · “Muhammad (the prophet of Islam)”
MolochModern Hebrew · “Moloch (Ammonite deity)”
MonsunArabic · “monsoon”
MontabaurBiblical Hebrew · “a town, the administrative seat of Westerwaldkre”
MoosModern Hebrew · “dosh, dough”
MoscheeArabic · “mosque”
MudschahedArabic · “mujahid (male or of unspecified gender) (Muslim ”
MuftiArabic · “mufti (Muslim scholar)”
MurzimArabic · “Beta Canis Majoris”
MuselmanArabic · “Muslim, Mussulman”
MuslimaArabic · “Muslimah”
NasiräerBiblical Hebrew · “Nazarite”
NatronAncient Egyptian · “sodium bicarbonate”
NetanjahuModern Hebrew · “a surname from Hebrew: Netanyahu”
NiqabArabic · “niqab”
NisbeArabic · “nisba (derivational suffix in Arabic and certain”
NutteModern Hebrew · “whore; prostitute”
OrangeSanskrit · “orange (fruit)”
OscherArabic · “apple of Sodom (Calotropis procera)”
OttomanusArabic · “archaic form of Osman, the name borne by”
PapageiArabic · “parrot”
PassaAramaic · “Passover”
PassahModern Hebrew · “Passover”
PessachModern Hebrew · “Passover”
PlatteModern Hebrew · “bivouac; overnight camp”
PomeranzePersian · “bitter orange”
RamadanArabic · “Ramadan (Islamic month)”
RaphaelModern Hebrew · “Raphael (biblical character)”
RazziaArabic · “police raid”
ReibachModern Hebrew · “large profit, killing”
RemmidemmiArabic · “racket, revelry”
RibiselArabic · “currant (Ribes gen. et spp., chiefly the fruits)”
RiesArabic · “quantity of paper containing 1000 sheets (two re”
RochOld French · “synonym of Turm (“rook”)”
RochusModern Hebrew · “anger”
RubenModern Hebrew · “Reuben (biblical character).”
SabbatModern Hebrew · “the Sabbath”
SafariArabic · “safari”
SafranArabic · “saffron”
SaharaArabic · “Sahara (a desert in North Africa)”
SahelArabic · “Sahel (semiarid region in northern Africa)”
SalatArabic · “obligatory prayer, salat”
SamarienModern Hebrew · “Samaria (the ancient capital of the northern Kin”
SatinArabic · “satin”
SaudiArabic · “Saudi (person from Saudi-Arabia)”
SchabbatModern Hebrew · “Shabbat”
SchabbesModern Hebrew · “shabbes, shabbat”
SchachMiddle Dutch · “chess (game)”
schachernModern Hebrew · “to haggle”
schächtenModern Hebrew · “to slaughter by bleeding out”
SchalomModern Hebrew · “shalom (greeting)”
SchariaArabic · “Shari'a (islamic religious law)”
ScheichArabic · “sheik”
SchekelModern Hebrew · “shekel (currency unit of both ancient and modern”
SchembeisModern Hebrew · “jail, prison”
SchibbolethModern Hebrew · “shibboleth”
SchmierModern Hebrew · “fuzz, pigs, etc. (police)”
SchmiereModern Hebrew · “guard, watch, especially during the perpetration”
schnafteModern Hebrew · “great, cool”
SchoahModern Hebrew · “the Shoah”
schofelModern Hebrew · “sordid, paltry, mean”
SebchaArabic · “sabkha”
SeraphModern Hebrew · “seraph (highest order of angels)”
SethModern Hebrew · “Seth.”
SevillaPhoenician · “Seville (the capital city of Andalusia, Spain)”
SfaxArabic · “Sfax (a city in Tunisia)”
SirupArabic · “syrup (viscous, sweet liquid or semiliquid)”
SodomieModern Hebrew · “a form of sexual intercourse considered perverse”
SofaArabic · “sofa, couch (upholstered seat with a raised back”
stiekumModern Hebrew · “discreetly, secretly”
StussModern Hebrew · “drivel, verbal nonsense”
SuaheliArabic · “Swahili (language)”
SultanArabic · “sultan”
SumachSyriac · “sumac, any of several shrubs or trees of the gen”
SunnaArabic · “sunnah”
SureArabic · “sura (of the Qur'an)”
SusanneModern Hebrew · “a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to E”
TachelesModern Hebrew · “straight talk; talking turkey; frankness”
taffModern Hebrew · “tough, robust, hard-bitten, assertive, socially ”
TalahonModern Standard Arabic · “An adherent of an urban subculture of males aged”
TallitModern Hebrew · “tallit”
tamamArabic · “OK, alright”
TaraArabic · “tare (the empty weight of a container)”
TarifArabic · “fee, price, rate”
TasseMiddle Persian · “cup, mug (drinking vessel)”
TefillinModern Hebrew · “tefillin”
ThoraModern Hebrew · “Torah”
TinnefModern Hebrew · “junk, stuff of poor quality”
TirzaModern Hebrew · “Tirzah, the youngest daughter of Zelophchads”
TochesModern Hebrew · “the buttocks, rear end, butt, toches”
töfteModern Hebrew · “good, great, sweet”
TohuwabohuBiblical Hebrew · “chaos, tohu-bohu”
überhochmetztModern Hebrew · “overblown, exaggerated, exalted”
UdArabic · “oud”
UziModern Hebrew · “uzi (gun)”
VulkanMiddle French · “volcano”
wallahArabic · “Generic intensifier.”
WaqfArabic · “waqf”
WaranArabic · “monitor lizard”
WilajetArabic · “vilayet”
WuduArabic · “wudu, abdest (washing required after minor ritua”
YasminPersian · “a female given name”
ZaddikModern Hebrew · “tsaddik (A very righteous person, especially a H”
ZakatArabic · “zakat”
ZebaothModern Hebrew · “Sabaoth”
Zehn GeboteBiblical Hebrew · “the Ten Commandments”
ZibebeArabic · “raisin”
ZifferArabic · “digit, numeral”
ZikkuratAkkadian · “ziggurat”
ZionBiblical Hebrew · “Zion (a hill in West Jerusalem, in Israel, on wh”
ZirkonArabic · “zircon”
ZoresModern Hebrew · “trouble, muddle, discordance”
ZosseModern Hebrew · “horse, hack”
ZuckerSanskrit · “sugar”