How to say "breakfast" in Arabic

A hedge worth making carefully. Arabic فطر (faṭara) means 'to split, cleave open' — hence fuṭūr, breakfast, literally 'breaking' the night's fast, and al-Fāṭir, 'the Splitter, the Creator', a divine name from the same root. Hebrew פטר carries a related sense of opening or releasing — פֶּטֶר רֶחֶם, the firstborn that 'opens' the womb (Exodus 13:2), later 'to exempt, discharge'. Klein's dictionary connects the two roots; the sound correspondence is regular (ف↔פ, ط↔ט, ر↔ר), but the path from 'split open' to 'exempt' is a real semantic stretch, so treat this as traditionally compared, not a sure thing.