How to say "finger" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningfinger

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

إِصْبَع

iṣbaʿאצבע

إصبع

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

אצבע

etsbaإِتْسْبَا

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ص-ب-ع

Hebrew root

א-צ-ב-ע

Iṣbaʿ ↔ אצבע with the regular ص↔צ match — written in Hebrew letters it even spells exactly the same: אצבע.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

صُبَاع

ṣubāʿצבאע

Cairo's finger is ṣubāʿ (pl. ṣawābiʿ).

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

صْبع

ṣbeʿצבע

Darija: ṣbeʿ.

خَاتَم فِي إِصْبَعِهَا

khātam fī iṣbaʿihāח'אתם פי אצבעהא

a ring on her finger

أَصَابِع

aṣābiʿאצאבע

broken plural CaCāCiC — like مكتب→مكاتب