How to say "eleven" in Arabic
CognateMeaningeleven
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
aḥada ʿasharאחד עשר
أحد عشر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
akhad asarأَخَاد أَسَار
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
و-ح-دHebrew root
א-ח-דNot just the numeral matches — the whole construction does. Arabic builds eleven as aḥad(a) 'one' plus ʿashar 'ten', exactly like Hebrew אחד עשר. Spelled out in Hebrew letters the Arabic is indistinguishable from the Hebrew: אחד עשר.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
The dialect fuses the two words into one clipped syllable-pair: ḥdaʿash.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's teens all end in -āshar: ḥidāshar, itnāshar, talattāshar…
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija clips the teens to a single syllable-pair ending in -āsh: ḥḍāsh, ṭnāsh, tleṭṭāsh…
In a phrase
eleven days