How to say "rabbit" in Arabic
CognateMeaningrabbit
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَرْنَب
arnabארנב
أرنب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אַרְנָב
arnavأَرْنَاڤ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-ر-ن-بHebrew root
א-ר-נ-בArnab is arnav, unchanged down to the vowels — a clean four-consonant match with nothing to hedge.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
قْنِيَة
qniyaקניהDarija's rabbit is a qniya, from the same Latin cuniculus as Spanish conejo.
In a phrase
أَرْنَب أَبْيَض
arnab abyaḍארנב אביצ'a white rabbit
Plural
أَرَانِب
arānibאראנבbroken plural CaCāCiC