How to say "coal" in Arabic
CognateMeaningcoal
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
فَحْم
faḥmפחם
فحم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פחם
pekhamپِخَام
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ف-ح-مHebrew root
פ-ח-םThe exact same word in Hebrew, Aramaic (פחמא), and Arabic — one of the rare cases where MSA and Hebrew line up letter for letter with no drift at all.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
فَاخر
fākherפאח'רCharcoal in Darija is fākher.
In a phrase
قِطْعَة فَحْم
qiṭʿat faḥmקטעת פחםa piece of coal