How to say "grass" in Arabic
CognateMeaninggrass
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
عُشْب
ʿushbעשב
عشب
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
עשב
esevإِسِڤ
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ع-ش-بHebrew root
ע-ש-בʿUshb is esev (עשב) exactly — Hebrew sin (שׂ) regularly matches Arabic ش, just as in eser/ʿashara (ten).
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
رْبِيع
rbīʿרביעA different word: rbīʿ, literally 'spring', is the Darija word for grass.
In a phrase
عُشْب أَخْضَر
ʿushb akhḍarעשב אח'צ'רgreen grass