How to say "to answer" in Arabic

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Meaningto answer

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

أَجَابَ

ajābaאג'אב

أجاب

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

ענה

anaأَنَا

How the two words are related

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Arabic root

ج-و-ب

Same root as jawāb, this app's 'answer'. Hebrew ענה has no match in this root.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

جَاوَب

jāwabג'אוב

Spoken Levantine says jāwab; in class: jāwib! 'answer!'

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

رَدّ

raddרד

Cairo usually says radd ʿala, 'replied to'.

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

جَاوب

jāwebג'אוב

Darija: jāweb, 'he answered'.

أَجَابَ عَنِ السُّؤَال

ajāba ʿani s-suʾālאג'אב ען א-סואל

He answered the question.