رقم (ra'im/ra'am) — "number, numeral" in Levantine Arabic

رقم

ráʔim/ráʔam

number, numeral

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"number, numeral" in the other dialects

Moroccan Darija

نمْرة

Moroccan Darija

رقْم

رقم 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.

تواصلوا معنا على رقم الإذاعة وخبرونا قصص من مناطقكم.

Twaslou maana ala raqam el idhaa wa khabbrouna qisas min manateqkon.

Contact us on the radio number and tell us stories from your areas.

from Voice of Hope from the Radio

بعدين بضحك وبسال شو رقم تلفونك

baadayn byidhak w byisal shu raqam telefonak

Then he laughs and asks what is your phone number.

from Lost in the Market

طارق، الميكانيكي العنيد يلي عمرو تنين وأربعين سنة، صفن بتلفونو المكسور على أرض الكراج المزيتة بالجميزة، واكتشف إنو ضيع الرقم الوحيد لتاجر قزاز البيجو القديمة.

Tariq, el mikaniki el anid yalli omro tnein wa arbein seneh, safan bitelefono el maksour ala ard el karaj el mzayyateh bil Gemmayzeh, wa ktashaf inno dayya el raqam el wahid la tajer qzaz el peugeot el adimeh.

Tariq, the stubborn forty-two-year-old mechanic, stared at his broken phone on the oily floor of the garage in Gemmayzeh, and realized that he lost the only number for the vintage Peugeot glass merchant.

from The Lost Number in the Garage

سألني شو رقم تلفونك وحكيتله رقم تلفوني صفر سبعة تسعة خمسة خمسة وضحكت وقلت عمري عشرين سنة

Sa'alnī shū raqam telefonak w ḥakētlo raqam telefonī ṣifr sabʿa tisʿa khamsa khamsa w ḍiḥekt w qult ʿomrī ʿishreen sane

He asked me 'What's your phone number?' and I told him 'My phone number is 07955' and I laughed and said 'I am twenty years old'.

from Returning an Item to the Shop

رن كريم على صاحبه فجاوبه صاحبه وهو مو متذكر الرقم

rann Karim ala ṣaḥibuh fa-jawabo ṣaḥibuh wahuwa moo mutadhakkir al-raqm

Karim called his friend, and his friend answered, not remembering the number.

from A Humorous Call

اليوم، بروح عالجامعة بالباص رقم 12، لأنه سيارتي الـ 2005 بدها تصليح بـ 100 ألف ليرة.

El-yom, brouh 3al-jam3a bil-bas raqam 12, la'anno sayyarti el-2005 bidda taslih bi-100 alf lira.

Today, I go to the university by bus number 12, because my 2005 car needs repair for 100,000 Liras.

from Layla's Calculations in Hamra

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