How to say "bread" in Arabic
New wordMeaningbread
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خُبْز
khubzח'בז
خبز
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
לחם
lekhemلِخِم
How the two words are related
New word
No Hebrew relative — learn it fresh.
Arabic root
خ-ب-زNo Hebrew relative here — but watch the trap: Arabic لحم (laḥm) sounds exactly like Hebrew לחם, yet it means meat, not bread. If you want bread, say khubz.
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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
عَيْش
ʿēshעישCairo's bread is ʿēsh, literally 'life'; khubz is the book word.
In a phrase
خُبْز وَمِلْح
khubz wa-milḥח'בז ומלחbread and salt