How to say "dream" in Arabic
CognateMeaningdream
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
حُلْم
ḥulmחלם
حلم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חלום
khalomخَالُوم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ح-ل-مHebrew root
ח-ל-םחלום and ḥulm share the root ḥ-l-m, dream for dream. Even the verb matches: חלם ↔ ḥalama.
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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
حِلْم
ḥilmחלםCairo says ḥilm.
In a phrase
أَحْلَام سَعِيدَة
aḥlām saʿīdaאחלאם סעידהsweet dreams!
Plural
أَحْلَام
aḥlāmאחלאםbroken plural aCCāC — like وَلَد→أَوْلَاد; you already met it in أَحْلَام سَعِيدَة above