عَشَرَten

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.

  عَشَرَ — ten. The 'ten' that pairs with the 'seven' before it to form 'seventeen', the second half of the teen compound. The two number words lock together as one count; this word supplies the 'ten' that the unit is added to.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →