عِشْرين (3ishrin) — "twenty" in Levantine Arabic

عِشْرين

3išrīn

twenty

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"twenty" in the other dialects

Egyptian Arabic

عِشْرين

3išrīn

Moroccan Darija

عِشْرين

عِشْرين in a sentence

Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.

بس هالمرة، قرر يعطيها هدية غير تقليدية بمناسبة عيد جوازهم الخامس والعشرين.

Bas hal-marra, qarrar ya'teeha hadiyye ghayr taqleediyye bimunaasabet 'eed jawaazhom il-khaames w-il-'ishreen.

But this time, he decided to give her an unconventional gift for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

from Abu Samir's Kitchen Disaster

العاصفة كانت أقوى من أي عاصفة رأوها في سنواتهم العشرين الماضية، والمطر كان غزيراً جداً، حتى سدت المصارف.

Al-'aasifeh kanat aqwa min ayy 'aasifeh ra'aw-ha fi sanawat-hum al-'ishreen al-madiya, wal-matar kan ghazeeran jiddan, hatta saddat al-masaref.

The storm was stronger than any storm they had seen in their past twenty years, and the rain was so heavy that it clogged the drains.

from The Unexpected July Storm

عمري عشرين سنة وانا ضايع بالسوق

omri ishreen sane w ana daye bil souq

I am twenty years old and I am lost in the market.

from Lost in the Market

طارق، طالب عمرو عشرين سنة ودايماً متوتر، بدو منقوشة، بس معو بس خمسين ألف ليرة بجيبتو.

Tariq, taleb omro ishrin sana wa dayman mutawattir, biddo manoushe, bas mao bas khamsin alef lira bi jibto.

Tariq, a student whose age is twenty years and is always nervous, wants a man'oushe, but he has only fifty thousand liras in his pocket.

from Morning Man'oushe in Gemmayzeh

ريحة مناقيش الزعتر السخنة ملت شارع الحمرا الصبح، ورامي، طالب جامعة عمرو عشرين سنة ودائماً مستعجل، كان كتير جوعان.

rihet manaqeesh el-zaatar el-sukhneh malet shareh el-hamra el-soboh, w-rami, taleb jameah omro ishrin sneh w-daiman mistaajel, kan keteer juaan.

The smell of hot zaatar manakish filled Hamra Street in the morning, and Rami, a twenty-year-old university student who is always in a hurry, was very hungry.

from Zaatar Manakish in Hamra

حكى معي انه عم يدرس وعمره عشرين سنة هلا

ḥaka maʿī innuh ʿam yidrus w ʿumruh ʿishreen sane hallā'

He told me he's studying and he is twenty years old now.

from Morning Call

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