How to say "from" in Arabic
CognateMeaningfrom
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِن
minמן
من
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מִן / מ־
min / mi-مِين / مِ-
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic min is Hebrew מִן, unchanged. Hebrew usually squeezes it into the prefix מ־ (מהבית), while Arabic still writes it as its own word — min al-bayt is exactly Biblical מן הבית.
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In a phrase
أَنَا مِن هُنَا
anā min hunāאנא מן הנאI am from here.