How to say "lemon" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaninglemon

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

لَيْمُون

laymūnלימון

ليمون

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

לימון

limonلِيمُون

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Hebrew לימון is a straight borrowing of Arabic laymūn (itself from Persian līmū) — the same word Europe took home as lemon.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

لَمُون

lamūnלמון

Cairo: lamūn.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

حَامض

ḥāmeḍחאמצ'

Trap: in Morocco līmūn means orange; a lemon is ḥāmeḍ, 'sour'.

شَاي بِلَيْمُون

shāy bi-laymūnשאי בלימון

tea with lemon