How to say "death" in Arabic
CognateMeaningdeath
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مَوْت
mawtמות
موت
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מוות
mavetمَاڤِت
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
م-و-تHebrew root
מ-ו-תThe same root m-w-t runs through all of Semitic: Hebrew מוות and מת, Arabic mawt and māt ("he died"). In spoken Levantine the diphthong flattens and mōt sounds closer still.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
مَوْت
mōtמותThe diphthong aw flattens to ō in Levantine, as in bayt → bēt.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مُوت
mōtמותCairo, too, flattens aw to ō: mōt.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
مُوت
mūtמותDarija turns aw into ū: mūt.
In a phrase
اَلْمَوْت جُزْء مِنَ الْحَيَاة
al-mawt juzʾ min al-ḥayāhאל-מות ג'זא מן אל-חיאהDeath is a part of life.