How to say "see you later / I'll see you" in Arabic
CognateMeaningsee you later / I'll see you
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
arāk lāḥiqanאראך לאחקן
أراك لاحقا
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
nitra'e akhar kakhنِتْرَائِي أَخَار كَاخ
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ر-أ-يHebrew root
ר-א-הArāk is literally 'I see you' — the same root r-ʾ-y as Hebrew ר-א-ה, 'to see' (compare Hebrew אראה, 'I will see'). Weak-final roots like this regularly show a י/ה alternation between the two languages, but the verb itself is one and the same.
Related Hebrew word:אראהereإِرِي
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Colloquial 'I'll see you' uses an entirely different verb, shāf/yishūf, 'to see' — not MSA raʾā at all.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo: ashūfak baʿdēn (ashūfik to a woman) — no b- when the verb means 'I'll…'.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's 'I' verb starts with n-: nshūfek men baʿd.
In a phrase
see you tomorrow morning
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- safe travels / have a good tripriḥla saʿīdaرِحْلَة سَعِيدَةנסיעה טובה
- peace / hellosalāmسَلَامשלום
- hellomarḥabaمَرْحَبًاשלום