How to say "news item" in Arabic
New wordMeaningnews item
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خَبَر
khabarח'בר
خبر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ידיעה
yedi'aيِدِيئَا
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
خ-ب-رNo safe Hebrew relative — Arabic خ-ب-ر covers knowing and reporting: khabar is a piece of news, khabīr an expert. Older dictionaries compared Hebrew ח-ב-ר 'to join, befriend' (as in חבר), but linguists doubt the link — enjoy the ח'בר/חבר echo as a memory hook, not an etymology.
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In a phrase
سَمِعْتُ الْأَخْبَار
samiʿtu l-akhbārסמעת אל-אח'בארI heard the news.
Plural
أَخْبَار
akhbārאח'בארbroken plural aCCāC — like وَلَد→أَوْلَاد; al-akhbār is 'the news'.