عدد

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ع د د (ʕ d d)
13 terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʕa.dad/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

عَدَد (ʕadadm (plural أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād))

  1. number
    Synonym: رَقْم (raqm)
  2. numeral
  3. years of life
  4. multitude, crowd
  5. family
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: ədəd
  • Persian: عدد ('adad)
  • Urdu: عدد ('adad)
  • Ottoman Turkish: عدد

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عدد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “عد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

عَدَّدَ (ʕaddada) II (non-past يُعَدِّدُ (yuʕaddidu), verbal noun تَعْدِيد (taʕdīd))

  1. to count off, to enumerate
    • Quran
      ٱَلَّذِي جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُ
      allaḏī jamaʕa mālan waʕaddadahu
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. to wail, to lament (of women, for the dead)
  3. to multiply, make numerous
Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَدَد (ʕadad).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? aḏaḏ
Dari reading? adad
Iranian reading? adad
Tajik reading? adad

Noun

عدد ('adad)

  1. number

Derived terms

Urdu

Noun

عدد ('adad?

  1. number