How to say "wheat (grain)" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningwheat (grain)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قَمْح
qamḥקמח
قمح
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חיטה
khitaخِيتَا
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ق-م-حHebrew root
ק-מ-חA drift worth savoring: Arabic qamḥ is the wheat grain itself, still standing in the field, but its Hebrew look-alike קמח jumped a step down the production line to mean flour — the ground result. Same root, different stage of the loaf.
Related Hebrew word:קמחkemakhكِمَاخ
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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
قَمْح
ʾamḥאמחCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʾamḥ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
قمْح
qemḥקמחDarija qemḥ, very often heard with a hard g: gemḥ.
In a phrase
خُبْز الْقَمْح
khubz al-qamḥח'בז אל-קמחwheat bread