How to say "thunder" in Arabic
Shifted meaningMeaningthunder
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
رَعْد
raʿdרעד
رعد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
רעם
ra'amرَاءَام
How the two words are related
Shifted meaning
Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.
Arabic root
ر-ع-دHebrew root
ר-ע-דRaʿd is thunder, but the same Arabic root also gives irtaʿada, 'to shudder, tremble' — exactly Hebrew רעד. Thunder is simply what makes the sky itself tremble. Modern Hebrew's actual word for thunder, רעם, comes from an unrelated root, so keep the two straight.
Related Hebrew word:רעדra'adرَاءَد
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In a phrase
صَوْت الرَّعْد
ṣawt ar-raʿdצות א-רעדthe sound of thunder