Arabic vocabulary
نَيِّفٌa little over in Arabic
نَيِّفٌ is how you say “a little over” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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