How to say "no" in Arabic
CognateMeaningno
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
لَا
lāלא
لا
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
לא
loلُو
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Identical: Proto-Semitic *lā survived unchanged in both Arabic لا and Hebrew לא. Nothing to memorize here.
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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
لَأ
laʾלאCairo's no ends in a glottal stop: laʾ.
In a phrase
لَا، شُكْرًا
lā, shukranלא, שכרןno, thank you