How to say "crisis" in Arabic
New wordMeaningcrisis
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَزْمَة
azmaאזמה
أزمة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
משבר
mashberمَاشْبِر
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Arabic root
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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
أَزْمِة
azmeאזמהCasual speech softens the final tāʾ marbūṭa from -a to -e — the same shift as mushkile 'problem': azme.
In a phrase
أَزْمَة سِيَاسِيَّة
azma siyāsiyyaאזמה סיאסיהa political crisis
Plural
أَزَمَات
azamātאזמאתSound feminine plural -āt (stem vowel shifts أزمة→أزمات).