How to say "leg / foot" in Arabic
CognateMeaningleg / foot
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
rijlרג'ל
رجل
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
regelرِگِل
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ر-ج-لHebrew root
ר-ג-לRijl = רגל letter for letter (Arabic ج was once a hard g, as Egyptians still say it). Careful: swap the vowels and you get rajul, 'man' — same root, very different compliment.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Palestinian speech usually says ijir.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo keeps the r and says rigl with a hard g (pl. riglēn) — right next to Hebrew רגל.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija: rjel (pl. rjlīn).
In a phrase
He broke his leg.
Plural
broken plural aCCuC — like عين→أعين