How to say "hand" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghand
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَد
yadיד
يد
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יד
yadيَاد
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Yad = יד, unchanged across thousands of years. Even the idioms match: yadan bi-yad — יד ביד, hand in hand.
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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
إِيد
īdאידLevantine stretches it to īd.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
إِيد
īdאידCairo says īd too (pl. idēn).
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
يدّ
yeddידDarija: yedd (yeddi — 'my hand').
In a phrase
غَسَلْتُ يَدَيَّ
ghasaltu yadayyaע'סלת ידיI washed my hands.