How to say "copper" in Arabic
CognateMeaningcopper
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
نُحَاس
nuḥāsנחאס
نحاس
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
נחושת
nekhoshetنِخُوشِت
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ن-ح-سHebrew root
נ-ח-שA genuinely ancient match, attested since the 14th-century-BCE Amarna letters — נחושת and nuḥās both go back to a common Semitic root ن-ح-س/נ-ח-ש. Hebrew's word for 'snake,' נחש, shares those same three letters; most likely a separate old word from the same root, not literally 'the copper-colored one.'
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
نَحَاس
naḥāsנחאסCairo says naḥās.
In a phrase
إِبْرِيق مِن النُّحَاس
ibrīq min an-nuḥāsאבריק מן א-נחאסa copper pitcher