How to say "there" in Arabic
CognateMeaningthere
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
هُنَاكَ
hunākaהנאך
هناك
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שם
shamشَام
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
hunāka is simply hunā — the cousin of Biblical הֵנָּה — plus the distancing tail -ka, like pointing the same finger a bit further away. Hebrew went with an unrelated word, שם.
Related Hebrew word:הנהhenaهِنَا
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
هُنِيك
hunīkהניךThe Levantine pair is hōn ("here") and hunīk ("there").
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
هِنَاك
hinākהנאךCairo's pair is hina / hināk.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
تمَّا
temmaתמאDarija's 'there' is temma (or lhīh, 'over there').
In a phrase
اَلْمَطْعَم هُنَاك
al-maṭʿam hunākאל-מטעם הנאךThe restaurant is over there.