How to say "law, statute" in Arabic
New wordMeaninglaw, statute
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قَانُون
qānūnקאנון
قانون
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חוק
khokخُوك
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
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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
قَانُون
ʾānūnאאנוןCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ʾānūn.
In a phrase
أَمَامَ الْقَانُون
amāma al-qānūnאמאם אל-קאנוןbefore the law
Plural
قَوَانِين
qawānīnקואניןbroken plural, common for faʿūl-shaped nouns