How to say "Tuesday" in Arabic
CognateMeaningTuesday
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
الثُّلَاثَاء
ath-thulāthāʾא-ת'לאת'אא
الثلاثاء
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יום שלישי
yom shlishiيُوم شْلِيشِي
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ث-ل-ثHebrew root
ש-ל-שDay three: thulāthāʾ comes from thalāth = Hebrew שלוש — the classic ث↔ש correspondence, straight out of the textbook.
Related Hebrew word:שלושshaloshشَالُوش
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
التَّلَاتَا
it-talātaא-תלאתאث becomes t in speech: it-talāta.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
التَّلَات
it-talātא-תלאתCairo: (yōm) it-talāt.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
التّلَاتَا
t-tlātaא-תלאתאDarija: (nhār) t-tlāta.
In a phrase
كَانَ أَمْس الثُّلَاثَاء
kāna ams ath-thulāthāʾכאן אמס א-ת'לאת'אאyesterday was Tuesday