How to say "blood" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningblood

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

دَم

damדם

دم

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

דם

damدَام

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Dam = דם, identical in both languages — one of the oldest shared Semitic words. Even the idiom lines up: bi-dam bārid, בדם קר, in cold blood.

فَحْص الدَّم

faḥṣ ad-damפחץ א-דם

a blood test