اربعه

Persian

Alternative forms

• اربعة (arba'at, arba'a) (Classical Persian, archaic)
• اربع (arba') (from Arabic feminine)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَرْبَعَة (ʔarbaʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaɾ.ba.ʔa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.bä.ʔä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.bä.ʔä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.bɑːä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.bɔːä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɹ.bæ.ʔe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.bä.ʔä]

Readings
Classical reading?	arba'a
Dari reading?	arba'a
Iranian reading?	arba'e
Tajik reading?	arbaʾa

Numeral

اربعه • (arba'e)

1. four

   Synonym: چهار (čahâr)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اربع”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “اربعه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اربعه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• “اربعه”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2024