How to say "wine" in Arabic
CognateMeaningwine
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
khamrח'מר
خمر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
yayinيَايِن
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
خ-م-رHebrew root
ח-מ-רArabic خ regularly matches Hebrew ח, so khamr is exactly biblical חֶמֶר — 'you shall drink the blood of the grape, wine' in Deuteronomy 32:14 — and the Bible's own Aramaic חַמְרָא (Daniel 5:2). Modern Hebrew's everyday word for wine, יין, is a completely different, unrelated root.
Related Hebrew word:חמרkhemerخِمِر
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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 word for wine is nibīt (from nabīdh).
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija says shrāb (literally 'drink') for wine and alcohol in general.
In a phrase
a glass of wine
Plural
broken plural CuCūC — like زيت→زيوت (zuyūt); means wines, kinds of wine