How to say "family, one's own people" in Arabic

A tempting look-alike: ahl ('family, one's own people' — as in ahlan wa sahlan, 'welcome') shares its root skeleton, ʾ-h-l, with Hebrew ohel (אוהל, 'tent') — but the words mean different things today. Whether the roots are actually the same is a real scholarly disagreement: Even-Shoshan and Stahl connect them (tent-dwellers becoming 'family', alongside Akkadian ālu, 'settlement'), while Klein calls the link doubtful. Either way, don't lean on it as a reliable cognate — learn ahl as its own word.