Arabic vocabulary
نَيِّفٌa little over
How to say “a little over” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَعَدَدُهُمْ نَيِّفٌ عَلَى الْعِشْرِينَ قَارِئًا،
And their number was a little over twenty reciters,
نَيِّفٌ — a little over. A noun meaning 'an excess / a few more', the predicate completing 'their number was a bit over...'. It takes the subject-style ending as the predicate of the verbless sentence. It sets up the over-twenty count delivered by the words that follow.
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