عَدَدُthe number

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ تَجَاوَزَ عَدَدُ مُؤَلَّفَاتِهِ أَرْبَعَ مِئَةٍ كِتَابٍ

  The number of his authored works exceeded four hundred books.

  عَدَدُ — the number. A noun that is the doer of 'exceeded', the head of 'the number of his works'. It is the first half of an 'X of Y' pairing, so it gives up any 'the' of its own and draws definiteness from the owner-noun after it.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• وَهِيَ عَدَدُ رَكْعَاتِ الْفَرْضِ

  And it is the number of obligatory units of prayer.

  عَدَدُ — number. A noun ('number') working as the predicate that the pronoun 'it' equals, and at the same time the front noun of an 'of' pairing ('number OF...'). It takes the subject ending as predicate while leaning on the noun after it to say number of what.

  From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →

• وَعَدَدُهُمْ نَيِّفٌ عَلَى الْعِشْرِينَ قَارِئًا،

  And their number was a little over twenty reciters,

  وَعَدَدُهُمْ — and their number. A noun 'number' with wa- on front and the 'their' suffix on the end. The wa- opens a fresh statement linking to the scene; the possessor suffix points back to the reciters, marking it as their count. It is the subject of the equational sentence that follows.

  From: Public Preaching →