How to say "watermelon" in Arabic
CognateMeaningwatermelon
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
بَطِّيخ
baṭṭīkhבטיח'
بطيخ
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אבטיח
avatiakhأَڤَاتِيَاخ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ب-ط-خHebrew אבטיח is already on the Numbers 11:5 craving list, so it is no Arabic loan — both languages carry the same ancient melon word, likely a wanderwort older than either. The match is clean: ط↔ט, خ↔ח, with Hebrew adding a prosthetic א in front.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
دلَّاح
dellāḥדלאחDarija's watermelon is dellāḥ; baṭṭīkh there means melon.
In a phrase
بَطِّيخ بَارِد
baṭṭīkh bāridבטיח' בארדcold watermelon