How to say "there is not" in Arabic
CognateMeaningthere is not
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
lā yūjadלא יוג'ד
لا يوجد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
einإِين
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
و-ج-دThe lā here is Hebrew לֹא — the Semitic negative that never changed, used just alike in both languages. lā yūjad is literally "is not found", MSA's roundabout way of saying אין.
Related Hebrew word:לאloلُو
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
The everyday "there isn't any": mā fīsh mushkile — "no problem". Often just fish.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo's mafīsh is the same negation said as one word: mafīsh mushkila — 'no problem'.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: mā kāynsh — 'there isn't (any)'.
In a phrase
There is no time.