How to say "bathroom" in Arabic
CognateMeaningbathroom
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
حَمَّام
ḥammāmחמאם
حمام
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שירותים
sherutimشِرُوتِيم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ح-م-مHebrew root
ח-מ-םA ḥammām is literally "the heated place", from ح-م-م — the same root as Hebrew חם "hot" and חמם "to heat". Hebrew even borrowed the word back as חמאם for a Turkish bathhouse.
Related Hebrew word:חמםkhimemخِمِم
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In a phrase
أَيْنَ الْحَمَّام؟
ayna al-ḥammām?אין אל-חמאםWhere is the bathroom?