How to say "donkey" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningdonkey

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

حِمَار

ḥimārחמאר

حمار

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

חמור

khamorخَامُور

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ح-م-ر

Hebrew root

ח-מ-ר

Ḥimār is ḥamor with the same root ח-מ-ר — the patient beast of burden has answered to this name since Proto-Semitic times.

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In a phrase

حِمَار عَنِيد
ḥimār ʿanīdחמאר עניד

a stubborn donkey

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