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Arabic Dialect Sample Comparisons: Useful Vocabulary

Parts of the face

Levantine Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Jordanian	listen	Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks, skin, ear, ears, chin, hair
Lebanese	listen	Face, chin, cheek, cheeks, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, nose, eye, eyes, eyelashes, eyebrow, eyebrows, forehead, hair, neck, ear, ears, skin
Palestinian	listen	Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, nose, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, cheek, skin, ear
Syrian	listen	Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows (dual), eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks (dual), cheeks, skin, ear, chin, hair

Egyptian Dialect	Listen	English Meaning
Egyptian	listen	Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes (plural), the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin (of the face), the skin (of the face)

North African Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Algerian	listen	Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (plural), the eye (plural), eyes (dual), the eye (dual), nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin, the skin
Libyan	listen	The face, the forehead/the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes (plural), the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks
Moroccan	listen	The face, the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks
Tunisian	listen	Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, tooth, teeth, tongue, mouth, cheek, cheeks
Western Saharan & Mauritanian	listen	The face, the forehead, the eyebrow, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose/the nose, the tooth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheek, the cheeks/the cheek, the cheeks

Other Major Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Iraqi	listen	Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes, the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, the tooth, teeth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, the cheek, cheeks, the cheeks, skin, the skin
Bahraini	listen	Face, the face, eyebrows, the eyebrows, eye, the eye, eyes (dual), the eye (dual), eyes, the eyes, nose, the nose, mouth, the mouth, tooth, teeth, the tooth, the teeth, tongue, the tongue, cheek, cheeks, the cheek, the cheeks, skin, the skin
Yemeni	listen	The face, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose/the nose, the tooth, the teeth/the teeth, the mouth, the mouths, the tongue, the cheek, the cheeks, the skin, the eyelashes, the pupil, the facial hair, the ear, the earlobe

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