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بِلْيُون
billion /bɪlˈjuːn/
nounB2#3744 most common
Example sentences
عِنْدَهُ بِلْيُونُ دُولَارٍ.
He has one billion dollars.
يَعِيشُ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ بِلْيُونِ شَخْصٍ فِي الصِّينِ.
More than one billion people live in China.
بَلَغَتْ ثَرْوَتُهُ خَمْسَةَ بَلَايِينِ دُولَارٍ.
His wealth reached five billion dollars.
أَنْفَقَتِ الحُكُومَةُ بِلْيُونَ رِيَالٍ عَلَى المَشْرُوعِ الجَدِيدِ.
The government spent one billion riyals on the new project.
يُقَدَّرُ عَدَدُ سُكَّانِ العَالَمِ اليَوْمَ بِثَمَانِيَةِ بَلَايِينَ نَسَمَةٍ.
The world's population today is estimated at eight billion people.
ارْتَفَعَتْ قِيمَةُ الشَّرِكَةِ السُّوقِيَّةُ لِتَتَجَاوَزَ المِئَةَ بِلْيُونِ دُولَارٍ خِلَالَ عَقْدٍ مِنَ الزَّمَنِ.
The company's market value rose to exceed one hundred billion dollars over a decade.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بِلْيُونٌ | بَلَايِينُ |
| Genitive | بِلْيُونٍ | بَلَايِينَ |
| Accusative | بِلْيُوناً | بَلَايِينَ |
| Vocative | يَا بِلْيُونُ | يَا بَلَايِينُ |
Word family
مِلْيُونmillion
تِرِلْيُونtrillion
بَلَايِينbillions (plural)
مِلْيَارbillion (alternate term, from French milliard)
Etymology
بِلْيُون is a modern loanword, taken directly from French or English "billion" into Arabic in the 20th century, as Arabic financial and scientific writing needed a term for the number 10^9. It has no root in the classical Arabic triliteral system. Many Arabic varieties use مليار (from French "milliard") for the same value instead, so the two terms compete regionally.
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