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تِسْع
nine /ˈtisʕ/
adjectiveB1#1497 most common
Also: 9, nine (counting feminine nouns)
Example sentences
عِنْدي تِسْعُ قِطَطٍ.
I have nine cats.
اِنْتَظَرْتُ تِسْعَ دَقائِقَ أَمامَ البابِ.
I waited nine minutes in front of the door.
في الصَفِّ تِسْعُ طالِباتٍ مُجْتَهِداتٍ.
There are nine hardworking female students in the class.
زُرْتُ تِسْعَ مُدُنٍ خِلالَ رِحْلَتي.
I visited nine cities during my trip.
لَمْ تَمْضِ سِوى تِسْعِ سَنَواتٍ حَتّى تَغَيَّرَتِ المَدينةُ تَماماً.
Only nine years passed before the city changed completely.
تَرْوي المَخْطوطةُ القَديمةُ قِصَّةَ تِسْعِ عائِلاتٍ نَزَحَتْ عَنْ دِيارِها أَثْناءَ الحِصارِ.
The old manuscript tells the story of nine families who fled their homes during the siege.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تِسْعٌ | None |
| Genitive | تِسْعٍ | None |
| Accusative | تِسْعاً | None |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
تِسْعةnine (counting masculine nouns)
تاسِعninthتِسْعونninety
تُسْعone ninth (fraction)
تِسْعمِئةnine hundred
Etymology
تِسْع comes from a common Semitic word for the number nine. The same three consonants appear in Hebrew tēšaʿ and Aramaic tᵊšaʿ. The root is Semitic, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European source.
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