واحد

Arabic

Arabic numbers (edit)
10
   0 ١
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    Cardinal: وَاحِد (wāḥid)
    Ordinal: أَوَّل (ʾawwal)
    Multiplier: أُحَادِيّ (ʾuḥādiyy), مُفْرَد (mufrad), مُوَحَّد (muwaḥḥad)
    Distributive: أُحَادَ (ʾuḥāda), مَوْحَدَ (mawḥada), فُرَادَى (furādā)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʾaḥad- ~ *waḥad- (one).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waː.ħid/

Numeral

وَاحِد (wāḥid) m (feminine وَاحِدَة (wāḥida))

  1. one
    Eastern Arabic numeral: ١ (1)
    وَلِد وَاحِدwalid wāḥidone boy
    فَتَاة وَاحِدَةfatā(t) wāḥidaone girl

Declension

Usage notes

  • Numbers "one" and "two" follow the gender of the related word.
  • Numbers "one" and "two" are optional, since nouns have singular (one), dual (two) and plural forms.

Coordinate terms

Adjective

وَاحِد (wāḥid) (feminine وَاحِدَة (wāḥida), masculine plural وَاحِدُون (wāḥidūn) or وُحْدَان (wuḥdān) or أُحْدَان (ʾuḥdān))

  1. single[1]
  2. unique, incomparable[2]
  3. a certain[1]

Declension

Pronoun

وَاحِد (wāḥid) m (feminine وَاحِدَة (wāḥida))

  1. someone[1]

Declension

Descendants


Egyptian Arabic

Numeral

واحد • (ˈwɛːħɪd) m

(واحدة f (ˈwæħdæ))
  1. one
    Eastern Arabic numeral: ١

Coordinate terms


Malay

Malay cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : واحد

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic وَاحِد (wāḥid).

Pronunciation

Numeral

واحد (Rumi spelling wahid)

  1. Alternative form of احد

References

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