How to say "morning" in Arabic
New wordMeaningmorning
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
صَبَاح
ṣabāḥצבאח
صباح
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
בוקר
bokerبُوكِر
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
ص-ب-حLearn 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
الصُّبْح
iṣ-ṣubḥא-צבחFor 'in the morning' Cairo says iṣ-ṣubḥ: is-sāʿa sabʿa ṣ-ṣubḥ — 'seven in the morning'; the greeting stays ṣabāḥ il-khēr.
In a phrase
فِي الصَّبَاح
fī ṣ-ṣabāḥפי א-צבאחin the morning