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عَشَرَة

ten /ˈʕaʃara/

nounA1#343 most common

Also: the number ten, a group of ten

Example sentences

عِنْدِي عَشَرَةُ كُتُبٍ.
I have ten books.
فِي الْفَصْلِ عَشَرَةُ طُلَّابٍ.
There are ten students in the classroom.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ عَشَرَةَ أَقْلَامٍ مِنَ الْمَتْجَرِ.
I bought ten pens from the store.
يَعْمَلُ فِي هٰذَا الْمَكْتَبِ عَشَرَةُ مُوَظَّفِينَ.
Ten employees work in this office.
اِسْتَغْرَقَ الْمَشْرُوعُ عَشَرَةَ أَشْهُرٍ حَتَّى اكْتَمَلَ.
The project took ten months until it was completed.
مَنَحَتِ اللَّجْنَةُ الْفَائِزَ عَشَرَةَ آلَافِ دُولَارٍ تَقْدِيرًا لِإِنْجَازِهِ.
The committee awarded the winner ten thousand dollars in recognition of his achievement.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeعَشَرَةٌعَشَرَاتٌ
Genitiveعَشَرَةٍعَشَرَاتٍ
Accusativeعَشَرَةًعَشَرَاتٍ
Vocativeيَا عَشَرَةُيَا عَشَرَاتُ

Word family

عُشْرa tenth, tithe
عَاشِرtenth
عِشْرُونَtwenty
عَشَرَاتtens, dozens
عَاشُورَاءAshura, the tenth of Muharram

Etymology

The word comes from the Semitic root ʿ-š-r, which carries the meaning of the number ten. It is inherited from Proto-Semitic and has direct relatives across the family. The final tā' marbūṭa marks the form used to count masculine nouns under the rule of gender polarity.

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