How to say "seven" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningseven

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سَبْعَة

sabʿaסבעה

سبعة

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שבעה

shivaشِيڤَا

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

س-ب-ع

Hebrew root

ש-ב-ע

sabʿa is שבעה through the standard ש↔س filter. The same root builds أُسْبُوع 'week' exactly the way שבוע grows out of שבע.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

سبْعَة

sebʿaסבעה

Darija: sebʿa.

سَبْعَة أَيَّام

sabʿat ayyāmסבעת איאם

seven days