سَبْعَseven

Example sentences

• لَقَدْ إِبْتَدَأَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي التَّصْنِيفِ وَلَهُ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ سَبْعَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً؛

  Ibn al-Jawzi began compiling works when he was seventeen years old.

  سَبْعَ — seven. A number word, 'seven', that joins the 'ten' after it to make a teen, 'seventeen' — Arabic builds the teens by setting the unit beside ten as a fixed pair. On its own it is just 'seven'; its meaning here depends on its partner word.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ مَرَّةً فِي سَبْعِ عَشْرَةِ رَكْعَةٍ

  Seventeen times in seventeen rak'ahs.

  سَبْعَ — seven. The first half of a teen compound numeral ('seven' joined to a 'ten' partner) that together make 'seventeen'. In this teen range the two parts lock together as a frozen unit and the counted noun after them stays singular, the opposite of the three-to-ten rule.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →