How to say "board, tablet" in Arabic
CognateMeaningboard, tablet
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
lawḥלוח
لوح
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
luakhلُوَاخ
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ل-و-حHebrew root
ל-ו-חAs close as it gets — Hebrew לוח and Arabic lawḥ are the very same word, root ל-ו-ח/ل-و-ح, 'a flat board or tablet'. Think of the Ten Commandments' לוחות הברית, 'tablets of the covenant' — Arabic uses the identical noun for a classroom blackboard, a surfboard, or a dashboard.
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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
A different word: sabbūra is the Cairo blackboard.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
A different word: sebbūra is the Moroccan blackboard.
In a phrase
the classroom board
Plural
broken plural afʿāl-shape.