How to say "liver" in Arabic
CognateMeaningliver
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
kabidכבד
كبد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
kavedكَاڤِد
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ك-ب-دHebrew root
כ-ב-דKabid is כבד letter for letter (ك↔כ, ب↔ב, د↔ד) — and Hebrew's own כבד is a true double: the same word means both 'liver' and 'heavy'. Arabic keeps a cousin of that weightiness alive too, in the verb kābada (Form III), 'to endure, bear the brunt of,' and expressions like kabad al-ḥayāh, 'the toils of life' — the liver's root, loaded with burden, in both languages.
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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
Cairo's liver — on the plate as much as in the body — is kibda.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: kebda.
In a phrase
The liver is an important organ.