How to say "always" in Arabic

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Meaningalways

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

دَائِمًا

dāʾimanדאאמן

دائما

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

תמיד

tamidتَامِيد

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

د-و-م

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

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

دَايْمًا

dāymanדאימן

Spoken Levantine smooths the hamza into a glide: dāyman.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

دَايْمًا

daymanדימן

Cairo: dayman, with a glide for the hamza.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

دِيمَا

dīmaדימא

Darija: dīma.

هُوَ دَائِمًا مَشْغُول

huwa dāʾiman mashghūlהו דאאמן משע'ול

he is always busy