أَلْفthousand

Example sentences

• لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،

  A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.

  أَلْفَ — thousand. alf means 'a thousand'; object form here, counting the next word ('a thousand years').

  From: Adam's Descent →

• فقيل لي هذه أمتك، ومعهم سبعون ألفاً يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب

  And it was said to me: This is your nation, and with them are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without account or punishment.

  أَلْفًا — thousand. This is the counted noun after 'seventy', and by the fixed rule for numbers from 11 to 99 it comes SINGULAR and accusative — literally 'seventy thousand', one 'thousand' standing for the whole. The singular accusative is grammar, not a count of one.

  From: Those Who Enter Without Account →

• فيقال من كل ألف تسعمائة وتسعة وتسعون،

  It will be said: 'From every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine,'

  أَلْفٍ — thousand. This completes 'every thousand', in the genitive as owner. So the ratio is reckoned per thousand of humankind.

  From: The Return of Jesus →

• فقال الرجل أنا أذهب إليه وأخبره أني اشتريت قصرًا في الجنة بعشرين ألفًا، فلعلّه يعطيني مثلها

  So the man said: I will go to him and tell him that I have bought a palace in Paradise for twenty thousand, perhaps he will give me the same.

  أَلْفًا — thousand. A counted noun after 'twenty'; after the twenties through nineties Arabic puts the counted noun in the singular accusative, the -an you hear, rather than a plural. So one singular word stands for the whole count.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• فذهب إلى الوزير وقال له إني اشتريت قصرًا في الجنة بعشرين ألف درهم

  So he went to the minister and said to him: I have bought a palace in Paradise for twenty thousand dirhams.

  أَلْفِ — thousand. Here 'thousand' heads an 'of' chain with 'dirham' after it, so this counted word itself takes the genitive -i forced by the earlier 'twenty', and then owns the dirham that follows.

  From: The Reward of Giving →