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The table below shows
examples of Arabic numbers. The
first and the fifth columns have numbers used in some Arab countries;
they’re not of Arabic origins but still used in many places especially
copies of the Holy Qur’an …. Nowadays what we call the Arabic numbers are
the numbers shown on the columns 2 and 6, which are used by the Arab world
as well as the rest of the world.
Arabic Numbers |
٠ |
0 |
sifr |
صفر |
١ |
1 |
wahid |
واحد |
٢ |
2 |
ithnan |
إثنان |
٣ |
3 |
thalatha (th as in bath) |
ثلاثة |
٤ |
4 |
arba’a |
أربعة |
٥ |
5 |
khamsa |
خمسة |
٦ |
6 |
sitta |
ستة |
٧ |
7 |
sab’a |
سبعة |
٨ |
8 |
thamaniya (th in thin) |
ثمانية |
٩ |
9 |
tis’a |
تسعة |
١٠ |
10 |
‘ashra |
عشرة |
١١ |
11 |
ahada ‘ashar |
إحدى عشر |
١٢ |
12 |
ithna ‘ashar |
إثنا عشر |
١٣ |
13 |
thalatha ‘ashar |
ثلاثة عشر |
١٤ |
14 |
arba’a ‘ashar |
أربعة عشر |
١٥ |
15 |
khamsa ‘ashar |
خمسة عشر |
١٦ |
16 |
sitta ‘ashar |
ستة عشر |
١٧ |
17 |
sab’a ‘ashar |
سبعة عشر |
١٨ |
18 |
thamaniya ‘ashar |
ثمانية عشر |
١٩ |
19 |
tis’a ‘ashar |
تسعة عشر |
٢٠ |
20 |
‘ishrun |
عشرون |
٢١ |
21 |
wahed wa-’ishrun |
واحد و عشرون |
٢٢ |
22 |
ithnane wa-’ishrun |
إثنان وعشرون |
٢٣ |
23 |
thalatha wa-’ishrun |
ثلاثة و عشرون |
٢٤ |
24 |
arba’a wa-’ishrun |
أربعة و عشرون |
٢٥ |
25 |
khamsa wa-’ishrun |
خمسة و عشرون |
٢٦ |
26 |
sitta wa-’ishrun |
ستة و عشرون |
٢٧ |
27 |
sab’a wa-’ishrun |
سبعة وعشرون |
٢٨ |
28 |
thamaniya wa-’ishrun |
ثمانية و عشرون |
٢٩ |
29 |
tis’a wa-’ishrun |
تسعة و عشرون |
٣٠ |
30 |
thalathun |
ثلاثون |
٣١ |
31 |
wahid wa-thalathun |
واحد و ثلاثون |
٤٠ |
40 |
arba’un |
أربعون |
٤٢ |
42 |
ithnan wa-arba’un |
إثنان و أربعون |
٥٠ |
50 |
khamsun |
خمسون |
٥٣ |
53 |
thalatha wa-khamsun |
ثلاثة و خمسون |
٦٠ |
60 |
sittun |
ستون |
٦٤ |
64 |
arba'a wa-sittun |
أربعة و ستون |
٧٠ |
70 |
sab’un |
سبعون |
٧٥ |
75 |
khamsa wa-sab’un |
خمسة
و سبعون |
٨٠ |
80 |
thamanun |
ثمانون |
٨٦ |
86 |
sitta wa-thamanun |
ستة و ثمانون |
٩٠ |
90 |
tis’un |
تسعون |
٩٧ |
97 |
sab'a wa-tis’un |
سبعة و تسعون |
١٠٠ |
100 |
mi'a |
مائة |
١٠٠٠ |
1000 |
alf |
ألف |
١٠٠٠٠٠ |
100000 |
mi'at alf |
مائة ألف |
٢٠٠٠ |
2000 |
alfain |
ألفين |
١٠٠٠٠٠٠٠ |
10000000 |
Million |
مليون |
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Forming numbers in Arabic is quite
easy, from 13 to 19 you just place a number before ten for
example 13 = three ten, instead of thirteen in English, 17 is seven ten in
Arabic. From 21 to 99 you just need to reverse the numbers and add (wa-
between the two numbers) 36 would be six wa- thirty instead of thirty
six (sitta wa-thalathun), (wa means and).
0 is sifr in Arabic, from which
the word cipher came. For 11 and 12 they’re irregular, so just remember how
to write them by now (11 = ehda ‘ashar, 12 = ithna ‘ashar).
So in general, numbers standing
alone are easy to use, or say. The hard part is that numbers 3 to 10 have a
unique rule of agreement with nouns known as polarity: A numeral in
masculine gender should agree with a feminine referrer and vice versa (thalathatu
awlaad = three boys), boys are masculine plural, so the feminine form
of number 3 should be used (which is thalathatu, and not
thalathu which is the masculine form, the u at the end of numbers is used
when a number is followed by another word to make an easy jump to the next
word) (thalathu banaat = three girls) banaat = girls, which is feminine
plural, therefore a masculine form of number 3 should be used (thalathu).
That may sound complicated but once you get used to it, it will not be as
hard as it seems now, besides most Arab natives make mistakes or simply
don’t care about matching the gender and the number.
Arabic Ordinal Numbers:
Ordinal numbers in Arabic are almost like the cardinal numbers,
with some exceptions in the numbers from 1 to 10, and a slight difference in
numbers from 11 and up.
Note that ordinal numbers in
Arabic are somehow like adjectives, so they have to take the masculine, or
feminine form. Please check the adjectives page for more information.
Arabic Cardinal Numbers |
First |
Awwal |
Oula |
Second |
Thani |
Thania |
Third |
Thaleth |
Thaletha |
Fourth |
Rabe’ |
Rabe’a |
Fifth |
Khaames |
Khaamesa |
Sixth |
Sadis |
Sadisa |
Seventh |
Sabe’ |
Sabe’a |
Eighth |
Thamen |
Thamena |
Ninth |
Tase’ |
Tase’a |
Tenth |
acher |
achera |
Eleventh |
Hady achar |
Hadiata achar |
Twelfth |
Thani achar |
Thania achar |
After 10 only the first
number takes the feminine, for example 13th is thaleth achar for
masculine, and thalethata achar for feminine, achar stays the same, the
first half “thaleth” which means 3rd takes “a” in the feminine,
and so does the rest of the ordinal number, except ten numbers like 20, 30,
40, 50, they look like cardinal numbers but they add “a”
as a prefix for numbers starting with a consonant, for example: 70 = sab’un,
70th = asab’un (for both
masculine and feminine), and they add “al”
for ten numbers starting with a vowel, like: 40= arba’un, 40th =
alarba’un.
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“And they (polytheists, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah and in His Messenger, Muhammad (saw) ) will not cease fighting you until they turn you back from your religion (Islamic Monotheism) if they can.”
(Al-Baqarah, 2:217)
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