How to say "poor, impoverished" in Arabic
New wordMeaningpoor, impoverished
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
فَقِير
faqīrפקיר
فقير
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עני
aniأَنِي
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
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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
فَقِير
faʾīrפאירCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: faʾīr.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
فْقِير
fqīrפקירDarija keeps the q and drops the first vowel: fqīr; meskīn is also common.
In a phrase
عَائِلَة فَقِيرَة
ʿāʾila faqīraעאאלה פקירהa poor family
Plural
فُقَرَاء
fuqarāʾפקראאbroken plural CuCaCāʾ — like حكيم→حكماء
Feminine
فَقِيرَة
faqīraפקירה