غذا · غِذَاء — food; a meal
Shifted meaningCertainnoun · Food · everyday
Same word, but the meaning has moved. Overlaps, with a twist.
Arabic
غِذَاء
ghidhāʾ/ɣiðaːʔ/
In Arabic
nourishment, nutrition, diet
Arabic says: طَعَام ṭaʿām
Persian
غذا
qazā/ɢæzɒ/
In Persian
food; a meal
- Root
- غ ذ و
Note. Arabic ghidhāʾ is food as nutrition (ghidhāʾ ṣiḥḥī, a healthy diet); a dish or a meal is ṭaʿām or akl.
Sources: Dehkhoda · Moʻin · Wehr