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طُنّ
ton /tˤunn/
nounB1#2154 most common
Also: a huge amount, loads
Example sentences
هٰذا طُنّ.
This is a ton.
الصُّندوق يَزِن طُنّاً.
The box weighs a ton.
اِشْتَرى المَصنَع طُنّاً مِن الحَديد.
The factory bought a ton of iron.
تُنتِج المَزرَعة عَشَرة أَطنان مِن القَمح كُلَّ سَنة.
The farm produces ten tons of wheat each year.
تَحمِل هٰذه الشّاحِنة أَكثَر مِن خَمسة عَشَر طُنّاً مِن البَضائِع.
This truck carries more than fifteen tons of goods.
قَدَّرَ الخُبَراء أَنَّ كَمِّيّة النِّفايات البَلاستيكيّة تَبلُغ آلاف الأَطنان سَنَويّاً.
Experts estimated that the amount of plastic waste reaches thousands of tons annually.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | طُنٌّ | أَطنانٌ |
| Genitive | طُنٍّ | أَطنانٍ |
| Accusative | طُنّاً | أَطناناً |
| Vocative | يا طُنّ | يا أَطنان |
Word family
أَطنانtons (plural)
طُنّ مِتريmetric ton
Etymology
The Arabic طُنّ is a borrowing. It entered Arabic through European languages, tracing back to the Latin tunna, a large cask or barrel. The word spread across many languages as a unit of weight, and Arabic adopted it for the metric and imperial ton.
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