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صِفْر
zero /ˈsˤifr/
nounB1#2265 most common
Also: nil, nought, cipher
Example sentences
الرَّقْمُ صِفْر.
The number is zero.
حَصَلْتُ عَلَى صِفْر فِي الِامْتِحَان.
I got a zero on the exam.
دَرَجَةُ الحَرَارَةِ اليَوْمَ صِفْر.
The temperature today is zero.
بَدَأَ المَشْرُوعَ مِنَ الصِّفْر.
He started the project from zero.
انْتَهَتِ المُبَارَاةُ بِنَتِيجَةِ صِفْر لِصِفْر.
The match ended zero to zero.
يُعْتَبَرُ اخْتِرَاعُ الصِّفْرِ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ إِنْجَازَاتِ الرِّيَاضِيَّاتِ.
The invention of zero is considered one of the greatest achievements of mathematics.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صِفْرٌ | أَصْفَارٌ |
| Genitive | صِفْرٍ | أَصْفَارٍ |
| Accusative | صِفْرًا | أَصْفَارًا |
| Vocative | يَا صِفْرُ | يَا أَصْفَارُ |
Word family
أَصْفَارzeros (plural)
صَفِرَto be empty
صِفْرِيّnull, zero-valued
تَصْفِيرzeroing, resetting to zero
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ṣ-f-r, meaning to be empty. It named the empty column in place-value arithmetic. Medieval Latin borrowed it as zephirum and cifra, which gave English both zero and cipher.
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