How to say "to take" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto take
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَخَذَ
akhadhaאח'ד'
أخذ
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
לקח
lakakhلَاكَاخ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-خ-ذHebrew root
א-ח-זakhadha is Hebrew אחז by the regular rules: خ↔ח and ذ↔ז. Biblical אחז means 'to seize, take hold' — the same idea; Modern Hebrew keeps the 'grip' side, as in מאחז, a holdfast.
Related Hebrew word:אחזakhazأَخَاز
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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
أَخَد
akhadאח'דIn the city the ذ hardens to d: akhad.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
خَد
khadח'דCairo shortens it further: khad; khud! — 'take!'
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
خْدَا
khdaח'דאDarija: khda; khdīt — 'I took'.
In a phrase
أَخَذَ الْمِفْتَاح
akhadha al-miftāḥאח'ד' אל-מפתאחHe took the key