How to say "to swallow" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto swallow
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَلَعَ
balaʿaבלע
بلع
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
בלע
balaبَالَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ب-ل-عHebrew root
ב-ל-עbalaʿa is בלע, root and meaning intact — the same root sits behind בולמוס (a swallowing frenzy, bulimia) and behind the Bible's 'ותבלע אתם הארץ,' 'the earth swallowed them' (Numbers 16).
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In a phrase
بَلَعَ الدَّوَاء
balaʿa ad-dawāʾבלע א-דואאHe swallowed the medicine