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سِنْت
cent (a monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a dollar or similar currency) /sɪnt/
nounB2#3003 most common
Also: penny (informal, one-cent coin)
Example sentences
هذا سِنْت واحد.
This is one cent.
عندي عشرة سنتات في جيبي.
I have ten cents in my pocket.
لا يمكنك شراء أي شيء بسنت واحد اليوم.
You can't buy anything with one cent today.
ارتفع سعر صرف الدولار بمقدار خمسة سنتات هذا الأسبوع.
The dollar's exchange rate rose by five cents this week.
كادت قيمة السنت الواحد تعادل لا شيء بعد التضخم الكبير.
The value of a single cent came to amount to almost nothing after the major inflation.
يُظهر تاريخ العملة الأمريكية كيف تراجعت القوة الشرائية للسنت منذ إصداره أول مرة عام 1793.
The history of American currency shows how the purchasing power of the cent has declined since it was first issued in 1793.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِنْتٌ | سِنْتَاتٌ |
| Genitive | سِنْتٍ | سِنْتَاتٍ |
| Accusative | سِنْتًا | سِنْتَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا سِنْتُ | يا سِنْتَاتُ |
Word family
سِنْتَاتcents (plural)
سِنْتِيمcentime, a small currency unit in some Arab countries
سِنْتِيمِتْرcentimeter
Etymology
The word entered Arabic as a direct loan from English 'cent', which itself comes from French 'cent' and ultimately Latin 'centum', meaning hundred. Arabic borrowed the term whole, without adapting it to a native root pattern, because it names a foreign currency unit. It is used mainly when Arabic speakers discuss dollars, euros, or other currencies that divide into cents.
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