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How to say "my darling (feminine, Arabic) → sweetheart (Israeli slang address to a woman)" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningmy darling (feminine, Arabic) → sweetheart (Israeli slang address to a woman)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

حَبِيبَتِي

ḥabībatīחביבתי

حبيبتي

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

חביבתי

khabibtiخَابِبْتِي

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Arabic root

ح-ب-ب

Hebrew root

ח-ב-ב

The feminine partner to this app's own habibi — same ح-ب-ب/ח-ב-ב root Hebrew keeps in חביב and חיבה. Israeli slang uses חביבתי for a woman exactly as habibi is used for a man.

Related Hebrew word:חביבהkhavivaخَڤِيڤَا

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In a phrase

كَيْفِك يَا حَبِيبَتِي؟
kayfik yā ḥabībatīכיפכ יא חביבתי

how are you, my darling?

The root family

ح-ب-بח-ב-ב· love

The love root behind ḥabībī. Hebrew's ח-ב-ב is a genuine old twin — Biblical חֹבֵב, modern חיבב and חיבה — so this family is true kinship, not just borrowing. That said, Israeli חביבי and חבוב themselves are recent loans straight from Arabic: the root came home twice.

  • حُبّ ḥubbloveחִבָּהaffection
  • حَبِيب ḥabībbeloved, darlingחָבִיבlikeable, dear
  • حَبِيبِي ḥabībīmy darling — the one Arabic word every Israeli knowsחֲבִיבִיbuddy (Israeli slang, borrowed straight back)
  • أَحَبَّ aḥabbahe lovedחִבֵּבhe was fond of
  • مَحْبُوب maḥbūbbeloved, popular
  • حَبَّة ḥabbagrain, seed; pill (Levantine ḥabbe ḥabbe — little by little)

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