How to say "snow" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningsnow

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

ثَلْج

thaljת'לג'

ثلج

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שלג

shelegشِلِگ

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ث-ل-ج

Hebrew root

ש-ל-ג

Thalj is sheleg via the regular Hebrew ש ↔ Arabic ث correspondence — the very same shift that links shalosh and thalāth (three).

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

تَلْج

taljתלג'

ث becomes t in Levantine: talj.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

تَلْج

talgתלג

ث becomes t and ج a hard g: talg.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

تلْج

teljתלג'

ث becomes t: telj.

ثَلْج عَلَى الْجَبَل

thalj ʿalā l-jabalת'לג' עלא אל-ג'בל

snow on the mountain