How to say "question" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningquestion

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سُؤَال

suʾālסאאל

سؤال

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שאלה

she'elaشِئِلَا

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

س-أ-ل

Hebrew root

ש-א-ל

שאלה and suʾāl share the root š-ʾ-l, "to ask", with the regular ש↔س swap. Ask away — the word is family.

عِنْدِي سُؤَال

ʿindī suʾālענדי סאאל

I have a question.

أَسْئِلَة

asʾilaאסאלה

broken plural aCCiCa — like جَوَاب→أَجْوِبَة