Word
هل عاش العالم بين عام ألف وثلاثمئة وعام ألف وأربعمئة؟
Meaning
Did the scientist live between the year thirteen hundred and the year fourteen hundred?
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Breakdown of هل عاش العالم بين عام ألف وثلاثمئة وعام ألف وأربعمئة؟
الal
the
هلhal
is / are (question marker)
وwa
and
عامâmun
year
Questions & Answers about هل عاش العالم بين عام ألف وثلاثمئة وعام ألف وأربعمئة؟
Why does العالم mean 'the scientist' here instead of 'the world'?
The word العالم can be read as al-'aalim (the scientist or scholar) or al-'aalam (the world). Because the sentence asks if someone lived between certain years, context tells us it must refer to a person, making it 'the scientist'.
How is the year 1300 constructed in Arabic here?
Unlike English where we often group numbers to say 'thirteen hundred', Arabic years are built by spelling out the thousands and hundreds connected by و (and). So 1300 is literally stated as 'thousand and three hundred' (ألف وثلاثمئة).
Why is the word for hundred attached directly to the number in ثلاثمئة and أربعمئة?
For the hundreds from 300 to 900, Arabic combines the single digit (like ثلاث for three or أربع for four) and the word for hundred (مئة) into one single connected word.
Why does the sentence repeat the word عام (year)?
When expressing 'between year X and year Y', it is standard and natural in formal Arabic to repeat the word for year after the 'and' (و). This creates the structure بين عام... وعام... (between year... and year...).