How to say "wide, spacious" in Arabic
CognateMeaningwide, spacious
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
raḥbרחב
رحب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
rakhavرَاخَاڤ
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ر-ح-بHebrew root
ר-ח-בA clean match with Hebrew rachav (רחב), 'wide' — same root, same meaning, letter for letter. The root even hides inside the everyday greeting marḥaban (مرحبا), literally 'you've arrived at a spacious place' — Israeli slang borrowed it as מרחבא, its final א copying the alif that Arabic writes with the tanwin (مرحبًا), while אהלן spells the same kind of -an ending with ן.
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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
The everyday word is wāsiʿ; raḥb is literary.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: wāseʿ.
In a phrase
a spacious house