Arabic word for door from root d-l-t or d-l-th?

Question

I know that the Hebrew letter 'daleth' originates from the word for 'door', indeed the Modern Hebrew word for door is 'dalet'.Is there an Arabic word for door from this same root - d-l-t or d-l-th? Do we find it in the Qur'an or other Islamic literature?

Answer 1

The exact answer (like word by word) is no but semantically it can be close. If we compare Arabic to Hebrew, we can find the exact word such as father/أب/Av, A hand/Yad/يد. Other terms only reflect the same semantic field in the other language such as saying "Good Morning/Boker Tov/Sabah El Khair". Boker in Arabic: Baker, means early, and early is semantically connected with Sabah or morning. The word Bab in Arabic can have the inference of a "manner" or a "tool" such as saying:"Leaning is a tool of success"/"العلم باب النجاح". The word Dalat دالّة in Arabic meant to indicate something. For example when we say : "Learning indicates success/ العلم دالّة النجاح", which means learning is a sign of success. Hence they are not exactly the same, but semantically they are not too far.

Answer 2

I don’t believe there is another word with the same root for widely used Arabic. The word for door in Arabic is ‘bab' باب. However, Arabic and Hebrew share semetic roots. It is possible to find many other synonyms for the word 'bab’ in the Arabic spoken in the many villages and towns throughout the Middle East, and one or some could very well have a d-l-t root.

This reminds me of the example of the Hebrew word for “I” which is ‘Ani’. Although the commonly used word for “I” in Arabic is “Ana,” there is a city in Yemen (old Sana’a) and some other dialects which use “Ani” for “I” similar to Hebrew.