How to say "evening" in Arabic
New wordMeaningevening
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مَسَاء
masāʾמסאא
مساء
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ערב
erevإِرِڤ
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
عْشِيَّة
ʿshiyaעשיהDarija's evening (and late afternoon) is l-ʿshiya: f-l-ʿshiya — 'in the evening'; the greeting is msā l-khīr.
In a phrase
فِي الْمَسَاء
fī l-masāʾפי אל-מסאאin the evening