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عِشْرُون
twenty /ʕɪʃˈruːn/
nounA2#859 most common
Also: 20, a score
Example sentences
عِنْدِي عِشْرُونَ كِتَابًا.
I have twenty books.
فِي الصَّفِّ عِشْرُونَ طَالِبًا.
There are twenty students in the class.
عُمْرُهَا عِشْرُونَ عَامًا.
She is twenty years old.
دَفَعْتُ عِشْرِينَ دِينَارًا ثَمَنًا لِلْكِتَابِ.
I paid twenty dinars for the book.
قَضَيْنَا عِشْرِينَ يَوْمًا فِي القَرْيَةِ نَنْتَظِرُ هُطُولَ الأَمْطَارِ.
We spent twenty days in the village waiting for the rain.
حَصَلَ المُرَشَّحُ عَلَى عِشْرِينَ بِالمِئَةِ مِنَ الأَصْوَاتِ، وَهِيَ نِسْبَةٌ لَمْ تَكْفِ لِفَوْزِهِ.
The candidate received twenty percent of the votes, a share that was not enough for him to win.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عِشْرُونَ | عِشْرُونَ |
| Genitive | عِشْرِينَ | عِشْرِينَ |
| Accusative | عِشْرِينَ | عِشْرِينَ |
| Vocative | عِشْرُونَ | عِشْرُونَ |
Word family
عَشَرَةten
ثَلَاثُونَthirty
عِشْرِينِيَّاتthe twenties (a decade or an age range)
عاشِرtenthعُشْرa tenthEtymology
ʿishrūn is built on the Semitic root for ten, ʿ-š-r. Arabic forms the decade twenty by adding the sound masculine plural ending to the base, so the word patterns like a plural. The same root and the same shift to twenty appear across the Semitic family, in Hebrew esrim and Aramaic ʿesrin.
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