How to say "house" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghouse
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
baytבית
بيت
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
bayitبَايِت
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ب-ي-تHebrew root
ב-י-תOne of the oldest shared words in Semitic: Arabic bayt and Hebrew בית are the same word, letter for letter (ب↔ב, ي↔י, ت↔ת). Even the letter name bet originally meant 'house'.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
The ay diphthong flattens to ē — bēt, just like Hebrew bayit becomes beit- in construct forms.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Same in Cairo: bēt.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's house is a dār; bīt means a room.
In a phrase
my house is nearby
Plural
broken plural CuCūC — like قَلْب→قُلُوب