How to say "day" in Arabic
CognateMeaningday
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَوْم
yawmיום
يوم
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יום
yomيُوم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ي-و-مHebrew root
י-ו-םIdentical twins: Arabic yawm and Hebrew יום are the same Proto-Semitic word, letter for letter. If you can say יום, you already know yawm.
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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
نْهَار
nhārנהארDarija's 'day' is nhār (MSA nahār, 'daytime'): nhār l-ḥedd — 'Sunday'; yūm is heard too.
In a phrase
يَوْم جَمِيل
yawm jamīlיום ג'מילa beautiful day
Plural
أَيَّام
ayyāmאיאםbroken plural aCCāC — the root's و assimilates: aywām → ayyām. Compare Hebrew ימים.