How to say "alley" in Arabic
New wordMeaningalley
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
زُقَاق
zuqāqזקאק
زقاق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
סמטה
simtaسِمْتَا
How the two words are related
New word
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Arabic root
ز-ق-قLearn it
On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
حَارَة
ḥāraחארהCairo's alley — and old-city neighborhood — is a ḥāra.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
درْب
derbדרבDarija's lane or alley is a derb.
In a phrase
زُقَاق ضَيِّق
zuqāq ḍayyiqזקאק צ'יקa narrow alley
Plural
أَزِقَّة
aziqqaאזקהbroken plural — the geminate ق stays doubled even in the plural