How to say "shoulder" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningshoulder

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

كَتِف

katifכתף

كتف

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

כתף

katefكَاتِف

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ك-ت-ف

Hebrew root

כ-ת-פ

Katif = כתף, a perfect one-to-one match on all three consonants — a word you already know before you study it.

حَمَلَهُ عَلَى كَتِفِهِ

ḥamalahu ʿalā katifihiחמלה עלא כתפה

He carried him on his shoulder.

أَكْتَاف

aktāfאכתאף

broken plural aCCāC — like سوق→أسواق