How to say "spider" in Arabic

New word

Meaningspider

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

عَنْكَبُوت

ʿankabūtענכבות

عنكبوت

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

עַכָּבִישׁ

akavishأَكَاڤِيش

How the two words are related

New word

No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.

ʿAnkabūt and ʿakavish share ע/ع and כ/ك up front, and some have been tempted to connect them — but the extra ن and و in Arabic break the regular sound correspondences, so this stays a family resemblance rather than a claimed cognate.

Learn it

Practice the Animals deck Quiz a friend on it

On the street

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

رْتِيلَة

rtīlaרתילה

Darija's spider is a rtīla.

In a phrase

عَنْكَبُوت كَبِير

ʿankabūt kabīrענכבות כביר

a big spider

Plural

عَنَاكِب

ʿanākibענאכב

broken plural CaCāCiC