Arabic vocabulary
عَشَرُ is how you say “ten” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
مَا يَتِمُّ عَقْلُ اِمْرِئٍ حَتَّى يَكُونَ فِيهِ عَشَرُ خِصَالٍ
A person's intellect is not complete until he has ten qualities.
عَشَرُ — ten. A counting word for 'ten' that here acts as the thing said to exist in him, the predicate of the 'there is in him' clause. Arabic number-words pair with a counted noun in a fixed way, and this one leads into 'qualities' that follows. It states how many traits complete the intellect.
From: On Reason and Temptation →OpenArabic teaches words like عَشَرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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