Appendix:Arabic Swadesh list

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

This list contains Classical Arabic words exclusively, but the pronunciations
given are the MSA equivalents. It should also be noted that whenever more
than one word is provided in the same cell, the words are ordered from left to
right corresponding to their English translations, separated by (English)
commas.

List
No.

English

Arabic
arabj

IPA
pronunciation

you (singular)

nt m, nt f

he

hw

we

nn

you (plural)

, ,

ntm m, ntn f,
ntm (dual)

they

, ,

hm m, hn f, hm (dual)

this

that

lk

here

hn

10 there

hnk

11 who

mn

12 what

m, m

13 where

14 when

mt

15 how

kf

16 not

, ,

l, lm, m

17 all

kl

18 many

kir

19 some

bd

20 few

qlil

21 other

xr

22 one

wd

23 two

()nn

24 three

25 four

rb

26 five

xms

27 big

kbir

28 long

twil

29 wide

rid, ws

30 thick

smik

31 heavy

qil

32 small

sir

33 short

qsir

34 narrow

djq

35 thin

rqiq

36 woman

()mr

37 man (male)

rl

38 man (human)

nsn

39 child

tfl

40 wife

41 husband

42 mother

43 father

44 animal

jwn

45 fish

smk

46 bird

tr

47 dog

klb

48 louse

qml

49 snake

fn

50 worm

dud

51 tree

52 forest

53 stick

ud, tb

54 fruit

fkh

55 seed

br

56 leaf

wrq

57 root

dr

58 bark (of a tree)

59 flower

zhr

60 grass

61 rope

bl

62 skin

dld

63 meat

lm

64 blood

dm

65 bone

66 fat (noun)

smn

67 egg

bd

68 horn

qrn

69 tail

70 feather

ri

71 hair

72 head

rs

73 ear

74 eye

75 nose

nf

76 mouth

fm

77 tooth

sn

78 tongue

lsn

79 fingernail

fr

80 foot

qdm

81 leg

sq

82 knee

rkb

83 hand

jd

84 wing

dn

85 belly

btn

86 guts

87 neck

nq

88 back

hr

89 breast

sdr

90 heart

qlb

91 liver

kbd

92 to drink

rb

93 to eat

kl

94 to bite

95 to suck

96 to spit

97 to vomit

98 to blow

99 to breathe

10
to laugh
0

dk

10
to see
1

10
to hear
2

sm

10
to know
3

lm

10
to think
4

fkr

10
to smell
5

10
to fear
6

10
to sleep
7

nm

10
to live
8

10
to die
9

mt

11
to kill
0

qtl

11
to fight
1

11
to hunt
2

sd

11
to hit
3

drb

11
to cut
4

11
to split
5

11
to stab
6

11
to scratch
7

11
to dig
8

11
to swim
9

12
to fly
0

tr

12
to walk
1

12
to come
2

12
to lie (as in a bed)
3

12
to sit
4

dls

12
to stand
5

qm

12
to turn (intransitive)
6

dr

12
to fall
7

12
to give
8

12
to hold
9

13
to squeeze
0

13
to rub
1

13
to wash
2

13
to wipe
3

13
to pull
4

13
to push
5

13
to throw
6

13
to tie
7

13
to sew
8

13
to count
9

14
to say
0

ql

14
to sing
1

14
to play
2

14
to float
3

14
to flow
4

14
to freeze
5

14
to swell
6

14
sun
7

ms

14
moon
8

qmr

14
star
9

ndm

15
water
0

15
rain
1

15
river
2

15
lake
3

15
sea
4

nhr

15
salt
5

15
stone
6

15
sand
7

15
dust
8

15
earth
9

16
cloud
0

16
fog
1

16
sky
2

16
wind
3

16
snow
4

16
ice
5

16
smoke
6

rd

sm

ld

16
fire
7

16
ash
8

16
to burn
9

17
road
0

17
mountain
1

17
red
2

17
green
3

17
yellow
4

17
white
5

17
black
6

17
night
7

17
day
8

tl (intr.), rq (tr.)

17
year
9

18
warm
0

18
cold
1

18
full
2

18
new
3

18
old
4

18
good
5

18
bad
6

18
rotten
7

18
dirty
8

18
straight
9

19
round
0

mmtl

fsd

19
sharp (as a knife)
1

19
dull (as a knife)
2

19
smooth
3

19
wet
4

mbll

19
dry
5

df

19
correct
6

si

19
near
7

qrib

19
far
8

bid

19
right
9

20
left
0

20
at
1

20
in
2

fi

20
with
3

m, b

20
and
4

20
if
5

, ,

n, , lw

20
because
6

ln, bsbb

20
name
7

()sm
Swadesh lists
Individual languages

Afrikaans Albanian Antillean Creole Arabic (standard) (p), Egyptian Arabic (p), P
alestinian Arabic (p), Tunisian Arabic (t) Armenian (t,p) Aromanian Bangala Bash
kir Basque Belarusian Breton Bulgarian (t) Burmese (t,p) Catalan Chechen
Chinese: Cantonese, Gan (p), Mandarin (t,p), Min Nan (Amoy) (p), Old Chinese (p) Cze
ch Danish Dutch (p) Egyptian (Middle) Esperanto Estonian Finnish Fiji
Hindi Fijian French (p) Frisian (West) Friulian Georgian (t,p) German (p) Gr
eek (modern) (p), Greek (ancient) Guaran Haida Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaii
an Hindi (t) Hittite Hmong (White) (p) Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish
(p) Istro-Romanian Italian (p) Japanese (t) Kashubian Khmer (p) Korean (t)
Kurdish Latin Latvian Lingala Lingua Franca
Nova Lithuanian Luwian Macedonian (t) Malagasy Malay Maltese Megleno
-Romanian Mongolian (t) Old
Portuguese (p) Ossetian (p) Polish (p) Portuguese (p) Proto-Indo-European Purep
echa Quechua Romani Romanian Russian (p) Sanskrit (t) Scottish Gaelic
Serbo-Croatian Sinhalese Slovenian Spanish (p) Sranan Swahili Swedish T
agalog Tajik (t) Tahitian Thai (t) Tocharian B Tok
Pisin Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Walloon Zulu
Language families and family branches
Afro-Asiatic Algonquian Altaic Araucanian Austro-Asiatic Australian Austr
onesian Baltic Baltic-Finnic Bantu Celtic DenYeniseian Dravidian Finno
-Ugric Frisian Germanic Hokan Iberian Italian Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian
(extended) Mayan Muskogean NigerCongo Oto-Manguean Paleosiberian P
enutian Romance Sino-Tibetan Slavic Siouan TaiKadai Tibeto-Burman T

upiGuarani Turkic Uto-Aztecan

The list may also include: (t) the transcription in Latin characters; (p) the phonetic transcription

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