How to say "bed" in Arabic
New wordMeaningbed
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
سَرِير
sarīrסריר
سرير
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מיטה
mitaمِيتَا
How the two words are related
New word
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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
تَخْت
takhtתח'תA Persian loan; the everyday Levantine word, though sarīr is understood.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
سِرِير
sirīrסרירCairo keeps the MSA word with a kasra: sirīr.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
نَامُوسِيَة
nāmūsiyaנאמוסיהA different word: literally 'mosquito-net', the Darija bed.
In a phrase
نَامَ فِي السَّرِير
nāma fī s-sarīrנאם פי א-סרירHe slept in the bed.
Plural
أَسِرَّة
asirraאסרהbroken plural aCCiCa — like سِلَاح→أَسْلِحَة; the doubled r fuses. Unvocalized أسرة is also how أُسْرَة "family" is written — the harakat tell them apart.