How to say "chin" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningchin
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
dhaqanד'קן
ذقن
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
santerسَانْتِر
How the two words are related
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ذ-ق-نHebrew root
ז-ק-נDhaqan is ז-ק-נ with the regular ذ↔ז match (as in ذهب/זהב, 'gold'). The everyday Hebrew word for 'chin' is actually סנטר; זקן narrowed to just the beard growing on it — and from a bearded man to 'an elder', so זקן also means 'old age' and 'a wise old man'.
Related Hebrew word:זקןzakanزَاكَان
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
ذ becomes d and the qāf a glottal stop: daʾn — chin, and also beard.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: dqen.
In a phrase
He has a long chin/beard.
Plural
broken plural aCCāC — like باب→أبواب