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جرام
gram (the metric unit of mass) /dʒaˈraːm/
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Example sentences
عندي مئة جرام شوكولاتة.
I have 100 grams of chocolate.
أعطني مئتي جرام جبنة من فضلك.
Give me two hundred grams of cheese, please.
ارتفع سعر الجرام من الذهب اليوم في السوق.
The price of a gram of gold rose today in the market.
تحتوي هذه العلبة على ثلاثمئة جرام من الأرز.
This box contains three hundred grams of rice.
انخفض وزنه خمسة آلاف جرام خلال شهرين بفضل الحمية الغذائية.
His weight dropped by five thousand grams over two months because of the diet.
يُستخدم الجرام كوحدة أساسية لقياس الكتلة في النظام المتري، وتُشتق منه وحدات مثل المليجرام والكيلوجرام.
The gram is used as a basic unit for measuring mass in the metric system, and units such as the milligram and kilogram are derived from it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جرامٌ | جراماتٌ |
| Genitive | جرامٍ | جراماتٍ |
| Accusative | جراماً | جراماتٍ |
| Vocative | يا جرامُ | يا جراماتُ |
Word family
جراماتgrams (plural)
مليجرامmilligram
كيلوجرامkilogram
مايكروجرامmicrogram
Etymology
جرام is a modern loanword, taken into Arabic from French "gramme" (or English "gram") when the metric system spread in the 19th and 20th centuries. The French word goes back to Late Latin "gramma", from Greek "grámma", which originally meant a written letter or small mark and came to denote a small unit of weight in late antiquity. Arabic simply adapted the sound of the borrowed word rather than building it from a native triliteral root.
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