How to say "mouth" in Arabic
CognateMeaningmouth
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
فَم
famפם
فم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
פה
peپِي
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Both go back to Proto-Semitic *pū 'mouth'; Arabic tacked on an m, and Arabic f regularly matches Hebrew פ. You can still hear the older form in constructs like fūhu 'his mouth'.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
تِمّ
timmתםSpoken Levantine prefers a different word entirely: timm.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
بُقّ
buʾʾבאCairo's mouth is buʾʾ (spelled بقّ, the qāf a glottal stop): iftaḥ buʾʾak — 'open your mouth'.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
فُمّ
fummפםDarija: fumm (fummi — 'my mouth').
In a phrase
اِفْتَح فَمَك
iftaḥ famakאפתח פמךOpen your mouth.