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عاشِر
tenth /ˈʕaːʃir/
nounB1#1731 most common
Also: the tenth one, tenth in a series
Example sentences
هٰذا هو اليومُ العاشِر.
This is the tenth day.
نَسكُنُ في الطّابِقِ العاشِر.
We live on the tenth floor.
حَلَّ اللّاعِبُ في المَركَزِ العاشِر في السِّباق.
The player finished in tenth place in the race.
نَحتَفِلُ هٰذا العامَ بالعِيدِ العاشِر لِزواجِنا.
This year we celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary.
يُصادِفُ اليومُ العاشِر مِن مُحَرَّم ذِكرى عاشوراء عِندَ المُسلِمين.
The tenth day of Muharram marks the commemoration of Ashura for Muslims.
لم يَخطُر بِبالِ أحَدٍ أنَّ هٰذا الكِتابَ العاشِر سَيَكونُ آخِرَ ما يَكتُبُه الرّوائيُّ قَبلَ رَحيلِه.
It occurred to no one that this tenth book would be the last the novelist wrote before his death.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عاشِرٌ | عاشِرونَ |
| Genitive | عاشِرٍ | عاشِرينَ |
| Accusative | عاشِراً | عاشِرينَ |
| Vocative | يا عاشِرُ | يا عاشِرونَ |
Word family
عَشَرةten
عاشِرةtenth (feminine)
عُشْرa tenth, one-tenthعِشرونtwenty
عاشوراءAshura, the tenth of Muharram
Etymology
عاشِر is the ordinal "tenth," formed on the Semitic root ع-ش-ر, which carries the sense of the number ten. The cardinal عَشَرة ("ten") and the fraction عُشْر ("a tenth") come from the same root. The pattern فاعِل turns the count into a rank in a sequence.
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