🔢 Numbers ٠–١٠
Unit 1 · Letters, greetings, numbers & getting around (MSA) · 9 min
Egyptian car plates and house numbers use Eastern Arabic digits ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩. Careful: ٥ = 5, ٠ = 0, ٦ = 6, ٧ = 7.
Words in this lesson
- ٠ (ṣifr) — zero
- ١ (wāḥid) — one
- ٢ (ithnān) — two
- ٣ (thalātha) — three
- ٤ (arbaʿa) — four
- ٥ (khamsa) — five
- ٦ (sitta) — six
- ٧ (sabʿa) — seven
- ٨ (thamāniya) — eight
- ٩ (tisʿa) — nine
- ١٠ (ʿashara) — ten
Text runs right-to-left, but numbers read left-to-right: ٢٥ = 25.
Project: Photograph 3 Eastern Arabic numbers on the street and convert them to 0–9.
