How to say "eye" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningeye

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

عَيْن

ʿaynעין

عين

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

עין

ayinأَيِن

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ع-ي-ن

Hebrew root

ע-י-ן

Identical twins: ʿayn and עין both mean an eye and also a water spring. Every Ein and ʿAyn on the map — עין גדי, ʿAyn Jālūt — is the same word.

عَيْنَاهَا جَمِيلَتَان

ʿaynāhā jamīlatānעינאהא ג'מילתאן

Her eyes are beautiful.

عُيُون

ʿuyūnעיון

broken plural CuCūC — like قلب→قلوب