How to say "pocket" in Arabic
New wordMeaningpocket
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
jaybג'יב
جيب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
kisكِيس
How the two words are related
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
ج-ي-بNo Hebrew relative — but a double twist: Hebrew כיס 'pocket' is the same ancient word as Arabic kīs 'bag' (see that entry), and jayb went global on its own. Arab mathematicians wrote the Sanskrit sine-word jīvā with the letters j-y-b; Latin translators read that as jayb 'fold, bosom' and rendered it sinus — which is why your calculator says sin.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Hard g and the ay flattened to ē: gēb.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija turns ay into ī: jīb.
In a phrase
There is a key in my pocket.
Plural
broken plural CuCūC — like بَيْت→بُيُوت