How to say "cow" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningcow

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

بَقَرَة

baqaraבקרה

بقرة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

פרה

paraپَارَا

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ب-ق-ر

Hebrew root

ב-ק-ר

Baqara is Hebrew bakar (בקר), the collective word for cattle — think בשר בקר, beef. Just don't confuse it with boker (morning), which is a different root.

Related Hebrew word:בקרbakarبَاكَار

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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

بَقَرَة

baʾaraבארה

With the Levantine glottal stop for ق: baʾara.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

بَقَرَة

baʾaraבארה

With the glottal stop for ق: baʾara.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

بگْرَة

begraבגרה

One of the rural words where Moroccan ق is a hard g: begra.

In a phrase

بَقَرَة كَبِيرَة

baqara kabīraבקרה כבירה

a big cow

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