How to say "neck" in Arabic
New wordMeaningneck
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
رَقَبَة
raqabaרקבה
رقبة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
צוואר
tsavarتْسَاڤَار
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
ر-ق-بLearn it
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
رَقَبَة
raʾabaראבהCairo turns the qāf into a glottal stop: raʾaba.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
عنْق
ʿenqענקDarija's neck is ʿenq — MSA's literary word.
In a phrase
عِقْد حَوْل رَقَبَتِهَا
ʿiqd ḥawl raqabatihāעקד חול רקבתהאa necklace around her neck
Plural
رِقَاب
riqābרקאבbroken plural CiCāC — like جبل→جبال