How to say "moon" in Arabic

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Meaningmoon

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

قَمَر

qamarקמר

قمر

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

ירח

yareakhيَارِيَاخ

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ق-م-ر

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

قَمَر

amarאמר

Urban Levantine pronounces ق as a glottal stop, so qamar becomes (ʾ)amar.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

قَمَر

ʾamarאמר

Cairo, too, says qāf as a glottal stop: ʾamar.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

قْمر

qmerקמר

Darija keeps the q: qmer.

الْقَمَر مُنِير

al-qamar munīrאל-קמר מניר

the moon is glowing

أَقْمَار

aqmārאקמאר

broken plural aCCāC — like نَهْر→أَنْهَار; in modern Arabic aqmār ṣināʿiyya are satellites, artificial moons