Salat And Namaz Difference According To Quran
We call it namaz, Arabs still call it salat, but all of us refer to the same ibada. Words in any language are used to relate an underlying concept. Just by themselves words don’t have any meaning.
Somewhat similar discussion on linguistics related to ‘Qurbani’ in urdu and ‘Nahar’ in Arabic by Ghamidi Sahab. Please refer to the video below from 27:34 to 28:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_ep67Vto9E&t=2453s