How to say "to, toward" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto, toward
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
إِلَى
ilāאלא
إلى
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אֶל
elإِل
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic ilā and Hebrew אֶל are the same directional particle — Hebrew clipped it short, Arabic kept the long tail vowel. With suffixes they nearly merge: ilayya ≈ אֵלַי, ilayka ≈ אֵלֶיךָ.
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In a phrase
مِن هُنَا إِلَى هُنَاك
min hunā ilā hunākמן הנא אלא הנאךfrom here to there