How to say "spirit" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningspirit

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

رُوح

rūḥרוח

روح

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

רוח

ruakhرُوَاخ

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ر-و-ح

Hebrew root

ר-ו-ח

רוח and rūḥ are the same word. Hebrew רוח covers both wind and spirit; Arabic splits the pair — rīḥ is the wind, rūḥ the spirit.

رُوح الْفَرِيق

rūḥ al-farīqרוח אל-פריק

team spirit

أَرْوَاح

arwāḥארואח

broken plural aCCāC — like وَلَد→أَوْلَاد