How to say "grave" in Arabic
CognateMeaninggrave
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قَبْر
qabrקבר
قبر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
קבר
keverكِڤِر
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ق-ب-رHebrew root
ק-ב-רקבר and qabr are the same word, same root, same three letters — burial vocabulary rarely matches this cleanly.
Related Hebrew word:קברkeverكِڤِر
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
قَبْر
abrאברUrban Levantine pronounces ق as a glottal stop: ʾabr — the same shift as qalb→alb.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
قَبْر
ʾabrאברCairo, too, turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʾabr.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
قْبر
qberקברDarija keeps the q and drops the vowel: qber.
In a phrase
زَارَ الْقَبْر
zāra al-qabrזאר אל-קברhe visited the grave
Plural
قُبُور
qubūrקבורbroken plural CuCūC