How to say "hedgehog" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghedgehog
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
قُنْفُذ
qunfudhקנפד'
قنفذ
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
קִפּוֹד
kipodكِيپُود
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ق-ن-ف-ذHebrew root
ק-פ-דStrip the Arabic ن and qunfudh becomes q-f-dh, which lines up with Hebrew ק-פ-ד — the final consonant doesn't follow the usual ذ↔ז pattern (compare dhahab/zahav), so treat this as a real but slightly irregular match, not a textbook-clean one.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
قُنْفُذ
unfudhאונפד'Word-initial ق turns into a glottal stop that's silent in Latin (unfudh) but Hebrew still marks it with א: אונפד'.
In a phrase
قُنْفُذ صَغِير
qunfudh ṣaghīrקנפד' צע'ירa small hedgehog
Plural
قَنَافِذ
qanāfidhקנאפד'broken plural CaCāCiC