How to say "milk" in Arabic
CognateMeaningmilk
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
حَلِيب
ḥalībחליב
حليب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חלב
khalavخَالَاڤ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ح-ل-بHebrew root
ח-ל-בSame root ḥ-l-b, 'to milk': Hebrew חלב and Arabic ḥalīb are one word in different vowel dress, with Arabic ح mapping straight onto Hebrew ח.
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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
لَبَن
labanלבןCairo's milk is laban — which elsewhere means yogurt.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
حْلِيب
ḥlībחליבDarija: ḥlīb.
In a phrase
حَلِيب وَعَسَل
ḥalīb wa-ʿasalחליב ועסלmilk and honey