How to say "here" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghere
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
هُنَا
hunāהנא
هنا
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
כאן / פה
kan / poكَان / پُو
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
hunā is family with Biblical Hebrew הֵנָּה ("to here"), as in בּוֹא הֵנָּה — both grown from the same old Semitic pointing-word. Modern Hebrew moved on to כאן and פה, but the match is still audible.
Related Hebrew word:הנהhenaهِنَا
Learn it
On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
هُون
hōnהוןLevantine says hōn for "here".
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
هِنَا
hinaהנאCairo says hina, with an i: taʿāla hina — 'come here'.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
هْنَا
hnaהנאDarija drops the first vowel: hna.
In a phrase
تَعَالَ إِلَى هُنَا
taʿāla ilā hunāתעאל אלא הנאcome over here