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ثَمانِي
eight /θaˈmaːniː/
adjectiveA2#1271 most common
Also: eight (form used with feminine nouns)
Example sentences
عِنْدي ثَماني قِطَط.
I have eight cats.
قَرَأْتُ ثَماني صَفَحات اليَوْم.
I read eight pages today.
عَمِلْتُ ثَماني ساعات أَمْس.
I worked eight hours yesterday.
زُرْنا ثَماني مُدُن في رِحْلَتِنا.
We visited eight cities on our trip.
اسْتَغْرَقَ المَشْروع ثَماني سَنَوات حتّى اكْتَمَل.
The project took eight years to be completed.
فازَ الفَريقُ في ثَماني مُبارَيات مُتَتالِية هذا المَوْسِم.
The team won eight consecutive matches this season.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | الثَّماني / ثَمانٍ | None |
| Genitive | الثَّماني / ثَمانٍ | None |
| Accusative | الثَّمانِيَ / ثَمانِيًا | None |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
ثَمانِيَةeight (with masculine nouns)
ثامِنeighthثُمُنan eighth, one-eighth
ثَمانونeighty
مُثَمَّنoctagon, octagonal
Etymology
ثَماني is the number eight. It comes from the Semitic root th-m-n, which marked the number eight across the family. Hebrew shemoneh, Aramaic təmanyā, and Akkadian samānû all descend from the same root. The word is Semitic, not Indo-European, so no Proto-Indo-European root applies.
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