How to say "hail" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghail
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَرَد
baradברד
برد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ברד
baradبَارَاد
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ب-ر-دHebrew root
ב-ר-דBarad is barad, letter for letter — as clean a match as they come. The shared root ב-ר-ד/ب-ر-د is about cold in general: Arabic bārid is the everyday word for 'cold,' and hail is simply rain that got too cold to stay liquid.
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In a phrase
حَبَّة بَرَد
ḥabbat baradחבת ברדa hailstone