How to say "alphabet" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningalphabet
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَبْجَدِيَّة
abjadiyyaאבג'דיה
أبجدية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אלפבית
alefbetأَلِفْبِت
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Abjad spells the first four letters in the old Semitic order — alif, bāʾ, jīm, dāl — exactly Hebrew א-ב-ג-ד. Both languages inherited that order (and the letter names) from the Phoenician–Aramaic alphabet: Hebrew names its alphabet after the first two letters, Arabic after the first four.
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In a phrase
الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة
al-abjadiyya l-ʿarabiyyaאל-אבג'דיה אל-ערביהthe Arabic alphabet