How to say "deep" in Arabic
CognateMeaningdeep
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
عَمِيق
ʿamīqעמיק
عميق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עמוק
amokأَمُوك
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ع-م-قHebrew root
ע-מ-קLetter for letter, the same root as Hebrew amok (עמוק) — ʿayn/ayin, mem/mem, qāf/qof line up with no shifts at all. A well, the sea, or an idea can all be ʿamīq, exactly as in Hebrew.
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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
عَمِيق
ʿamīʾעמיאCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʿamīʾ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
عْمِيق
ʿmīqעמיקDarija keeps the q and drops the first vowel: ʿmīq.
In a phrase
بَحْر عَمِيق
baḥr ʿamīqבחר עמיקa deep sea
Plural
عِمَاق
ʿimāqעמאקbroken plural CiCāC — like كبير→كبار
Feminine
عَمِيقَة
ʿamīqaעמיקה