How to say "last" in Arabic
CognateMeaninglast
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
آخِر
ākhirאח'ר
آخر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אחרון
akharonأَخَارُون
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-خ-رHebrew root
א-ח-רArabic آخر comes from the root ʾ-kh-r 'to be behind, to come after' — the mirror of Hebrew א-ח-ר in אחרון, אחרי and אחר. Here Hebrew ח answers Arabic خ, just as in חמש/khams.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
تَالِي
tālīתאליDarija says tālī for 'last' — l-merra t-tālya, the last time; l-ākher works too.
In a phrase
آخِر مَرَّة
ākhir marraאח'ר מרהthe last time