How to say "hunting, fishing" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaninghunting, fishing

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

صَيْد

ṣaydציד

صيد

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

ציד

tsayidتْسَايِد

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ص-ي-د

Hebrew root

צ-י-ד

As exact as cognates get: ص↔צ, ي↔י, د↔ד — Arabic ṣayd and Hebrew ציד (tsayid) are the same word for the same activity, hunting or fishing alike, going back to the same Proto-Semitic root.

Related Hebrew word:צידtsayidتْسَايِد

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In a phrase

ذَهَبَ لِلصَّيْد
dhahaba li-ṣ-ṣaydד'הב לל-ציד

He went hunting/fishing.

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