Colloquial Arabic: Sample Comparisons of Dialects - Useful Vocabulary

Parts of the face

Levantine Arabic Dialects

  • Jordanian Arabic
    English Translation:
    Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks, skin, ear, ears, chin, hair
  • Lebanese Arabic
    English Translation:
    Face, chin, cheek, cheeks, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, nose, eye, eyes, eyelashes, eyebrow, eyebrows, forehead, hair, neck, ear, ears, skin
  • Palestinian Arabic
    English Translation:
    Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, nose, mouth, lip, lips, tongue, tooth, teeth, cheek, skin, ear
  • Syrian Arabic
    English Translation:
    Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows (dual), eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, cheeks (dual), cheeks, skin, ear, chin, hair

Egyptian Arabic Dialects

  • Egyptian Arabic
    English Translation:
    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 Arabic Dialects

  • Algerian Arabic
    English Translation:
    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 Arabic
    English Translation:
    The face, the forehead/the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes (plural), the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks
  • Moroccan Arabic
    English Translation:
    The face, the forehead, the eyebrows, the eye, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the cheeks
  • Tunisian Arabic
    English Translation:
    Face, forehead, eyebrow, eyebrows, eye, eyes, nose, tooth, teeth, tongue, mouth, cheek, cheeks
  • Western Saharan and Mauritanian
    English Translation:
    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 Dialects

  • Bahraini Arabic
    English Translation:
    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
  • Iraqi Arabic
    English Translation:
    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
  • Yemeni Arabic
    English Translation:
    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