How to say "blue" in Arabic

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Meaningblue

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

أَزْرَق

azraqאזרק

أزرق

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

כחול

kakholكَاخُول

How the two words are related

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No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.

Arabic root

ز-ر-ق

No established Hebrew relative, despite the tempting resemblance to zaraq (זרק), 'to throw, splash' — the match is coincidental, not a shared root.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

أَزْرَق

azraʾאזרא

Cairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: azraʾ.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

زْرق

zreqזרק

Darija drops the initial a and keeps the q: zreq.

سَمَاء زَرْقَاء

samāʾ zarqāʾסמאא זרקאא

a blue sky

زُرْق

zurqזרק

color plural CuCC

زَرْقَاء

zarqāʾזרקאא