عَشَر ten in Arabic
عَشَر is how you say “ten” in Arabic.
Root ع ش ر ʿ-sh-r. noun / numeral (cardinal number). ʿashr.
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Meaning of ten in Arabic
- ten (cardinal number) Lane's identifies it as the feminine-form counterpart of عَشَرَةٌ
Example sentence
من استعاذ بِاللَّه فِي الْيَوْم عشر مَرَّات من الشَّيْطَان الرَّجِيم
Whoever seeks refuge with Allah ten times a day from the accursed Satan,
عَشْرَ ten
This is a counting word that pairs with the noun after it; in Arabic the number and the counted thing form a tight unit, and the noun it counts takes a specific shape because of it. It fixes the quantity at exactly ten.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
This is the cardinal number "ten." Lane's lexicon defines it simply as the feminine form of عَشَرَةٌ, its masculine-form counterpart — the two belong to a root whose verb forms describe taking a tenth of something, or making/completing a group of ten.
Words from the same root
- عَشَرَ to take a tenth of (property, people); to make ten by adding one
- عَشَّرَ to make a number ten; to take the tithe; to mark a Qur'an copy's tenths
- عَاشَرَ to mix with, consort with, keep familiar company with someone
- عَشَرَةٌ ten (the masculine-form cardinal number)
- عُشْرٌ a tenth; one part in ten
- عُشَرَآءُ a she-camel in the tenth month of her pregnancy
More example sentences
فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ غَيْرُ اِثْنَى عَشَرَ رَجُلًا،
Only twelve men remained with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
عَشَرَ ten
The 'ten' half completing 'twelve' with the 'two' before it; the two words lock together into one teen-number. The count is carried by this fixed pairing rather than by a single number-word.
Common questions
- How do you say "ten" in Arabic?
- عَشْر (ʿashr) — the feminine-form cardinal number ten, used opposite the masculine-form عَشَرَةٌ.
- What root does عَشْر come from?
- It comes from the triliteral root ع-ش-ر (ʿ-sh-r), whose verb forms mean to take a tenth of something or to make a number reach ten.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).