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أُسْبُوع
week /ʔusˈbuːʕ/
nounA1#228 most common
Example sentences
في الأُسْبُوع سبعة أيام.
There are seven days in the week.
سأراك الأُسْبُوع القادم.
I will see you next week.
غابَ عن العمل أُسْبُوعاً بسبب المرض.
He was absent from work for a week because of illness.
تستغرق هذه الدورة أُسْبُوعين فقط.
This course takes only two weeks.
لم نلتقِ منذ أسابيع، وأشتاق إلى أصدقائي كثيراً.
We have not met for weeks, and I miss my friends a lot.
على مدى الأسابيع الماضية، تصاعدت حدة التوتر بين البلدين تدريجياً.
Over the past weeks, tension between the two countries gradually escalated.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أُسْبُوعٌ | أَسَابِيعُ |
| Genitive | أُسْبُوعٍ | أَسَابِيعَ |
| Accusative | أُسْبُوعاً | أَسَابِيعَ |
| Vocative | أُسْبُوعُ | أَسَابِيعُ |
Word family
أُسْبُوعِيّweekly
أُسْبُوعِيّاًweekly, per week
أَسَابِيعweeks
سَبْعَةseven
Etymology
The word is built on the Arabic root s-b-ʕ, which means "seven." A week is a span of seven days, so the noun names the count of its days. The same link between "seven" and "week" appears across the Semitic languages.
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