ארבע

Aramaic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔarbaʕum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/

Numeral

אַרְבַּע • (ʾarbaʿ) f

1. feminine of אַרְבְּעָא (arbəʿā, “four”)
   • Tanach, Genesis 15:13:

     וַאֲמַר לְאַבְרָם מִדַּע תִּדַּע אֲרֵי דַיָּרִין יְהוֹן בְּנָךְ בְּאַרְעָא דְלָא דִילְהוֹן וְיִפְלְחוּן בְּהוֹן וִיעַנּוּן יָתְהוֹן אַרְבַּע מְאָה שְׁנִין:

     waʾămar ləʾaḇrām midaʿ tidaʿ ʾărē ḏayyārīn yəhōn bənāḵ bəʾarʿā ḏəlā ḏīlhōn wəyip̄ləḥūn bəhōn wīʿannūn yāṯhōn ʾarbaʿ məʾā šənīn

     And He [Adonoy] said to Avram: Know for sure that your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will enslave them and oppress them [for] four hundred years.

Descendants

• Classical Syriac: ܐܪܒܥ (arbaʿ)

Hebrew

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔarbaʕum.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Biblical) IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/
• (Samaritan) IPA^(key): /ar.ba/, [ˈʔær.bæˑ]
• (Tiberian) IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/, [ʔaʀˈbaː.aʕ]
• (Yemenite) IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/, [ʔærˈbæːʕ]
• (Persian) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ærˈbæ(ʔ)/
• (Iraqi) IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/
• (Sephardi) IPA^(key): /ʔarˈbaʕ/ (East), /(ʔ)arˈbaŋ/ (West)
• (Ashkenazi) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aʁ̞ˈba/
• (Modern Israeli) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aʁˈba/

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Numeral

אַרְבַּע • (arbá') f (masculine אַרְבָּעָה (arba'á))

1. feminine of אַרְבָּעָה (arba'á, “four”)

Derived terms

• על ארבע (al arbá')