Arabic vocabulary
How to say “volume” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَلَوْ قُلتُ إِنِّي اِطَّلَعْتُ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ مُجَلَّدًا، كَانَ أَكْثَرُ،
And if I said: 'Indeed I have perused twenty thousand volumes,' it would be more.
مُجَلَّدًا — a volume. The single counted noun the whole 'twenty thousand' measures, kept singular and in the object form as the counting structure demands. Arabic uses the singular for the thing counted after such large numbers. It is the unit the hypothetical figure counts.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →وَقَعَ لِي مِنْهُ نَحْوَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ مُجَلَّدًا
I obtained about one hundred and fifty volumes from it.
مُجَلَّدًا — a volume. The single counted noun the whole 'hundred and fifty' measures, kept singular and in the object form as the counting structure demands. Arabic uses the singular for the thing counted after such numbers. It names the unit the figure counts.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like مُجَلَّدًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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