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عُمْلَة
currency /ˈʕʊm.la/
nounB1#2504 most common
Also: coin (in compounds like عملة معدنية), money (loosely)
Example sentences
ما اسم عُمْلَة بلدك؟
What is the name of your country's currency?
عُمْلَة السعودية هي الريال.
Saudi Arabia's currency is the riyal.
أريد أن أُبدّل عُمْلَتي إلى الدولار.
I want to exchange my currency for dollars.
تراجعت قيمة العُمْلة المحلية أمام الدولار هذا الشهر.
The local currency's value fell against the dollar this month.
يراقب البنك المركزي تقلبات سعر صرف العُمْلة بحذر شديد.
The central bank watches the currency's exchange-rate swings very closely.
أدّى التضخم المُفرط إلى تآكل القيمة الشرائية للعُمْلة الوطنية بشكل غير مسبوق.
Runaway inflation eroded the national currency's purchasing power to an unprecedented degree.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عُمْلَةٌ | عُمُلاتٌ |
| Genitive | عُمْلَةٍ | عُمُلاتٍ |
| Accusative | عُمْلَةً | عُمُلاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا عُمْلَةُ | يا عُمُلاتُ |
Word family
عَمَلwork, job, action
عَامِلworker, factor
اِسْتِعْمَالuse, usage
تَعَامُلdealing, transaction
مَعْمَلfactory, labEtymology
عُمْلَة comes from the Arabic root ع-م-ل, which underlies verbs and nouns about work and use, such as عَمِلَ (to work) and اِستِعْمَال (usage). The noun originally carried the sense of something in active use, and this narrowed over time to mean money in circulation, much as English currency comes from Latin currere, to run or flow. Arabic is a Semitic language, so no Indo-European root applies here.
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