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رابِع
fourth /ˈraː.biʕ/
adjectiveA2#1023 most common
Also: fourth one, fourth (in a sequence)
Example sentences
هٰذا هو البيت الرابع.
This is the fourth house.
نلتقي في الساعة الرابعة بعد الظهر.
We meet at four o'clock in the afternoon.
يسكن جاري في الطابق الرابع من العمارة.
My neighbor lives on the fourth floor of the building.
حلّ فريقنا رابعاً في البطولة هذا العام.
Our team came fourth in the tournament this year.
يُعدّ القرن الرابع الهجري من أزهى عصور الحضارة الإسلامية.
The fourth century AH is regarded as one of the most flourishing eras of Islamic civilization.
لم يكن ترتيبه الرابع وليد الصدفة، بل كان ثمرة سنوات من التدريب الصارم.
His fourth-place ranking was no accident, but the fruit of years of strict training.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رابِعٌ | رابِعونَ |
| Genitive | رابِعٍ | رابِعينَ |
| Accusative | رابِعاً | رابِعينَ |
| Vocative | يا رابِعُ | يا رابِعونَ |
Word family
Etymology
رابِع comes from the Semitic triconsonantal root ر-ب-ع, which carries the sense of four. It uses the فاعِل pattern that Arabic applies to the ordinals from second to tenth. The same root yields أَرْبَعة, the cardinal number four, and رُبْع, a quarter. Cognate ordinals built on this root appear across the Semitic family.
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