How to say "scorpion" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningscorpion

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

عَقْرَب

ʿaqrabעקרב

عقرب

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

עקרב

akravأَكْرَاڤ

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ع-ق-ر-ب

Hebrew root

ע-ק-ר-ב

ʿAqrab is akrav letter for letter — all four consonants map one-to-one, a perfect Semitic match.

عَقْرَب تَحْتَ الْحَجَر

ʿaqrab taḥta l-ḥajarעקרב תחת אל-חג'ר

a scorpion under the rock