Arabic vocabulary
آلَافthousand
How to say “thousand” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قال بخير والحمد لله، وقد اشتريت دارًا بعشرة آلاف درهم
He said: I am well, praise be to Allah, and I have bought a house for ten thousand dirhams.
آلَافِ — thousand. The counted word after 'ten', 'thousands', closing the number pairing in the genitive. Arabic ties a number to what it counts through such an 'of' linkage rather than simple adjacency of equals.
From: The Reward of Giving →قال لأني تصدقت بعشرة آلاف درهم، فثمنها دار في الجنة
He said: Because I gave charity of ten thousand dirhams; the price of it is a house in Paradise.
آلَافِ — thousand. This sits in an 'of' possessive pairing with the word before it: 'ten of thousands'. Being the second, owning noun in that pair, it takes the genitive -i ending. Arabic builds such number-plus-counted links by placing the words directly side by side.
From: The Reward of Giving →فضحك الوزير وأعطاه عشرة آلاف درهم أخرى
The minister laughed and gave him another ten thousand dirhams.
آلَافِ — thousand. The owned, second member of the 'ten of thousands' pairing, so it takes the genitive -i. The side-by-side placement is how Arabic expresses 'X of Y' without a separate word for 'of'.
From: The Reward of Giving →قال أخبرته أني اشتريت دارًا في الجنة بعشرة آلاف درهم، فأعطاني عشرة آلاف أخرى
He said: I told him that I bought a house in Paradise for ten thousand dirhams, so he gave me another ten thousand.
آلَافِ — thousand. The owned, second member of 'ten of thousands', so genitive. The adjacency builds the 'X of Y' number link with no word for 'of'.
From: The Reward of Giving →قال أخبرته أني اشتريت دارًا في الجنة بعشرة آلاف درهم، فأعطاني عشرة آلاف أخرى
He said: I told him that I bought a house in Paradise for ten thousand dirhams, so he gave me another ten thousand.
آلَافٍ — thousand. The owned, second member of the count pairing, in the genitive. Here it is indefinite (no al-), so it reads 'thousands' generally rather than 'the thousands'.
From: The Reward of Giving →وَهَذَا الْمُعَثِّرُ يُسْمِعُ الآلَافَ مِنَ الْحُدَّاثِ فِيهَا الْوَعِيدَ وَالتَّهْدِيدَ،
And this one who causes others to stumble makes thousands of youths hear the warning and the threat contained in it.
الآلَافَ — thousands. A definite noun with al- ('the thousands'), here the first object of the causative verb, the ones made to hear. Causative verbs take an extra object like this; it names the crowd on the receiving end of the action.
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