How to say "narrow, tight" in Arabic

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Meaningnarrow, tight

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

ضَيِّق

ḍayyiqצ'יק

ضيق

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

צר

tsarتْسَار

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ض-ي-ق

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

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

ضَيَّق

ḍayyaʾצ'יא

Cairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ḍayyaʾ.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

ضيّق

ḍeyyeqצ'יק

Darija keeps the q: ḍeyyeq.

شَارِع ضَيِّق

shāriʿ ḍayyiqשארע צ'יק

a narrow street

ضَيِّقَة

ḍayyiqaצ'יקה