How to say "camel" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningcamel

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

جَمَل

jamalג'מל

جمل

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

גמל

gamalگَامَال

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ج-م-ل

Hebrew root

ג-מ-ל

Jamal is gamal — Hebrew ג regularly matches Arabic ج, which was originally pronounced g (and still is in Egypt: gamal).

جَمَل فِي الصَّحْرَاء

jamal fī ṣ-ṣaḥrāʾג'מל פי א-צחראא

a camel in the desert

جِمَال

jimālג'מאל

broken plural CiCāC — like ذِئْب→ذِئَاب