How to say "God bless you (reply to thanks or a compliment)" in Arabic
CognateMeaningGod bless you (reply to thanks or a compliment)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
allāhu yubārik fīkאללה יבארך פיך
الله يبارك فيك
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
she'elohim yevarekh otkhaشِئِلُوهِيم يِڤَارِخ أُوتْخَا
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ب-ر-كHebrew root
ב-ר-ךThe same verb as base-set بارك, to bless — and Hebrew בֵּרֵךְ. This full-sentence reply is close to word-for-word with Hebrew שיברך אותך אלוהים, 'may God bless you.'
Related Hebrew word:יברךyevarekhيِڤَارِخ
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo: allāh yibārik fīk (fīkī to a woman).
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: llāh ybārek fīk — the reply to mebrūk and to any compliment.
In a phrase
God bless you always
The root family
ب-ر-كב-ר-ך· blessing (and kneeling)
Blessing begins at the knee: Hebrew ברך is the knee itself, and Arabic keeps the kneeling verb (baraka — what a camel does at the well). From kneeling grew the blessing — ברכה and baraka — and, delightfully, the pool in both languages: בריכה and birka, originally the watering place where the camels knelt. Israeli slang has even borrowed מברוק back from Arabic mabrūk.
- بَرَكَة barakablessingבְּרָכָהblessing
- مَبْرُوك mabrūkcongratulations! ("blessed")מְבֹרָךְblessed
- بَارَكَ bārakahe blessedבֵּרַךְhe blessed
- بِرْكَة birkapool, pondבְּרֵכָהpool — the same word in both
- تَبَارَكَ tabārakablessed be (He) — as in tabāraka wa-taʿālāיִתְבָּרַךְmay He be blessed