how to say “an alarm” in Hebrew
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אַזְעָקָה
An alarm is something that sounds a warning. Modern Hebrew uses the Biblical root ז.ע.ק (z.a.k) meaning crying out, invoking the Aramaic form of the abstract noun of the active-causative הִפְעִיל verb form to create the word אַזְעָקָה.
For example:
אַזְעָקוֹת נִשְׁמְעוּ לְלֹא הֶרֶף בַּיָּמִים הָאַחֲרוֹנִים, בְּעִקָּר בִּדְרוֹם הָאָרֶץ.
Alarms were heard non-stop in the last (few) days, especially in the south of the country.
אזעקה is the word for alarm when referring to an object creating a physical sound (and not an alarm clock – that’s שעון מעורר).
To mean alarm in the emotional sense, use דְּאָגָה or חֲרָדָה , for example:
אֵין צוֹרֶךְ לִדְאָגָה.
No need to be alarmed (literally, there is no need for alarm).
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