How to say "my name is..." in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningmy name is...

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

اسْمِي

ismīאסמי

اسمي

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שמי

shmiشْمِي

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

س-م-و

Ismī is שמי down to the possessive: Arabic -ī, 'my,' is the same suffix as Hebrew ־י. Introduce yourself in Arabic and you're almost speaking Hebrew.

Related Hebrew word:שםshemشِم

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

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

سْمِيتِي

smītīסמיתי

Darija uses smīt- for 'name': smītī, 'my name is'.

اسْمِي عُمَر

ismī ʿUmarאסמי עמר

my name is Omar

أَسْمَاء

asmāʾאסמאא

Plural of the base noun اسم (ism, name) — broken plural aCCāC, like قلم→أقلام. Hebrew pluralizes the same word as שמות.