How to say "pig" in Arabic
CognateMeaningpig
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خِنْزِير
khinzīrח'נזיר
خنزير
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חֲזִיר
khazirخَازِير
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
خ-ن-ز-رHebrew root
ח-ז-רKhinzīr and khazir match once you set the ن aside: خ-ز-ير lines up with ח-ז-יר, and Hebrew ח regularly answers to خ, as it does throughout the alphabet. The n is not a late Arabic addition: forms of this word with and without it are found across the Semitic languages. Compare qunfudh/qippod (hedgehog), another pair where Arabic has a nun Hebrew lacks.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
حَلُّوف
ḥallūfחלוףDarija's pig is a ḥallūf; khinzīr sounds bookish.
In a phrase
خِنْزِير بَرِّيّ
khinzīr barriyyח'נזיר ברייa wild boar
Plural
خَنَازِير
khanāzīrח'נאזירbroken plural CaCāCīC