How to say "bone" in Arabic
CognateMeaningbone
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
عَظْم
ʿaẓmעט'ם
عظم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עצם
etsemإِتْسِم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ع-ظ-مHebrew root
ע-צ-מʿAẓm ↔ עצם via the regular match Arabic ظ ↔ Hebrew צ. The same root gives Arabic ʿaẓīm 'great, mighty' — the exact parallel of Hebrew עצום 'immense'.
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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
عَضْم
ʿaḍmעצ'םSpoken Levantine shifts ظ to ḍ: ʿaḍm.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
عَضْم
ʿaḍmעצ'םCairo says ʿaḍm as well.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
عْضم
ʿḍemעצ'םDarija: ʿḍem (pl. ʿḍām).
In a phrase
عِظَام قَوِيَّة
ʿiẓām qawiyyaעט'אם קויהstrong bones
Plural
عِظَام
ʿiẓāmעט'אםbroken plural CiCāC — like جبل→جبال