How to say "warm" in Arabic

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Meaningwarm

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

دَافِئ

dāfiʾדאפא

دافئ

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

חם

khamخَام

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

د-ف-أ

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

دَافِي

dāfiדאפי

The hamza drops: dāfi.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

دَافِي

dāfiדאפי

Darija too: dāfi.

جَوّ دَافِئ

jaww dāfiʾג'ו דאפא

warm weather

دَافِئَة

dāfiʾaדאפאה