How to say "ear" in Arabic
CognateMeaningear
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أُذُن
udhunאד'ן
أذن
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אוזן
ozenأُوزِن
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-ذ-نHebrew root
א-ז-נUdhun ↔ אוזן shows the regular swap Arabic dh (ذ) ↔ Hebrew ז, just like ذهب/זהב 'gold'. Compare Hebrew האזין 'to lend an ear' — same root doing the same job.
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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
إِدِن
idinאדןSpoken Levantine turns dh into d: idin.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
وِدْن
widnודןCairo's ear is widn (pl. widān) — the initial vowel became a w.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
وْدن
wdenודןDarija: wden (pl. wednīn).
In a phrase
أُذُن الْأَرْنَب طَوِيلَة
udhun al-arnab ṭawīlaאד'ן אל-ארנב טוילהThe rabbit's ear is long.
Plural
آذَان
ādhānאד'אןbroken plural aCCāC — like ولد→أولاد