How to say "frost" in Arabic
New wordMeaningfrost
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
صَقِيع
ṣaqīʿצקיע
صقيع
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
כפור
kforكْفُور
How the two words are related
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Arabic root
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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
صَقِيع
ṣaʾīʿצאיעLevantine turns the ق into a glottal stop: ṣaʾīʿ.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
صَقِيع
ṣaʾīʿצאיעCairo, too, turns the qāf into a glottal stop: ṣaʾīʿ.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
صْقِيع
ṣqīʿצקיעDarija keeps the q and drops the first vowel: ṣqīʿ.
In a phrase
صَقِيع الشِّتَاء
ṣaqīʿ ash-shitāʾצקיע א-שתאאwinter frost