How to say "to rise, get up" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto rise, get up
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
qāmaקאם
قام
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
kamكَام
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ق-و-مHebrew root
ק-ו-םHollow root ق-و-م / ק-ו-ם, same verb: qāma is קם. Arabic maqām (a shrine, a 'standing-place') is built exactly like Hebrew מקום ('place') — both from the idea of where one stands, rises, or stays.
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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
Urban Levantine turns qāf into a glottal stop, just like qāla/āl: qāma becomes ʾām.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo too: ʾām; ʾūm! — 'get up!'
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija's 'to get up' is nāḍ: nūḍ! — 'get up!'
In a phrase
He got up from sleep early