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مِلْيار
billion /mɪlˈjaːr/
nounB1#2970 most common
Also: milliard (British/French usage for 10^9)
Example sentences
عِنْدَهُ مِلْيارُ دُولارٍ.
He has a billion dollars.
يَعِيشُ في العالَمِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ سَبْعَةِ مِلْيارَاتِ إنسانٍ.
More than seven billion people live in the world.
بَلَغَتْ ثَرْوَتُهُ مِلْيارَ دولارٍ العامَ الماضي.
His wealth reached a billion dollars last year.
خَصَّصَتِ الحُكومَةُ مِلْيارَ رِيالٍ لِبِناءِ المُستَشفى الجديد.
The government allocated a billion riyals to build the new hospital.
ارْتَفَعَتْ قِيمَةُ الشَّرِكَةِ إلى عَشَرَةِ مِلْيارَاتِ دولارٍ بَعدَ الاكتِتابِ العامِّ.
The company's value rose to ten billion dollars after the IPO.
يُقَدَّرُ أَنَّ الاقتِصادَ العالَمِيَّ سَيَخْسَرُ ما يُقارِبُ ثَلاثَةَ مِلْيارَاتِ دولارٍ يَومِيًّا بِسَبَبِ الاضطِراباتِ التِّجارِيَّةِ.
It is estimated that the global economy will lose nearly three billion dollars daily because of trade disruptions.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مِلْيارٌ | مِلْيارَاتٌ |
| Genitive | مِلْيارٍ | مِلْيارَاتٍ |
| Accusative | مِلْيارًا | مِلْيارَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا مِلْيارُ | يا مِلْيارَاتُ |
Word family
مليونmillion
مليونيرmillionaire
مليارديـر / مليارديرbillionaire
ملياراتbillions (plural)
Etymology
مليار is a modern coinage, built by analogy with مليون (million), itself borrowed centuries earlier from Italian or French. To name the next order of magnitude, Arabic did not invent a native root but adapted the French word milliard, which is the term French, German, and several other European languages use for 10^9 in place of the English word billion. The result keeps the mil- element common to both mليون and مليار while swapping in an ending that echoes milliard. It entered Arabic through journalism, finance, and translated statistics in the twentieth century.
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