How to say "tent" in Arabic
New wordMeaningtent
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خَيْمَة
khaymaח'ימה
خيمة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אוהל
ohelأُوهِل
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
خ-ي-مNo Hebrew relative for خيمة itself — but you may already know the echo from أهلاً وسهلاً, 'welcome': Arabic أهل 'family, people' is widely linked to Hebrew אוהל, 'tent', the shelter a clan lived under. Two different words for 'tent' in the two languages, but the family/tent connection survives in the greeting.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
خَيْمَة
khēmaח'ימהThe ay flattens to ē: khēma.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
خِيمَة
khīmaח'ימהDarija turns ay into ī: khīma.
In a phrase
خَيْمَة كَبِيرَة
khayma kabīraח'ימה כבירהa big tent
Plural
خِيَام
khiyāmח'יאםbroken plural CiCāC