How to say "to sleep" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto sleep
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
نَامَ
nāmaנאם
نام
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
ישן
yashanيَاشَان
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ن-و-مHebrew root
נ-ו-םRoot נ-ו-ם: Arabic nāma is Hebrew נם (slumbered), the root behind תנומה and נמנם (to doze). Psalm 121 uses both: לא ינום ולא יישן — 'He neither slumbers nor sleeps.'
Related Hebrew word:נמנםnimnemنِمْنِم
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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
نْعس
nʿesנעסDarija's 'to sleep' is nʿes (MSA naʿasa, 'to doze'): nʿesti mezyān? — 'did you sleep well?'
In a phrase
نَامَ فِي سَرِيرِه
nāma fī sarīrihנאם פי סרירהHe slept in his bed