How to say "leopard" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningleopard

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

نَمِر

namirנמר

نمر

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

נָמֵר

namerنَامِر

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ن-م-ر

Hebrew root

נ-מ-ר

Namir is namer exactly — though careful: namer in Hebrew always means leopard, while Arabic namir can also stretch to cover the (unrelated) tiger, an-namir al-bengali, the Bengal tiger.

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In a phrase

نَمِر سَرِيع
namir sarīʿנמר סריע

a fast leopard

Plural

نُمُور
numūrנמור

broken plural CuCūC

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