Arabic word sheet
ثَمَنٌ
Price
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ث م ن
Meaning and usage
Price
What the seller receives in return for the thing sold, most often a sum of money. Said of anything that is bought and sold.
دَفَعَ سَامِي ثَمَنَ الْكِتَابِ.
Sāmī paid the price of the book.
Something given in exchange
More broadly, whatever is given or received in exchange for something else, be it money or goods: what a thing costs the one who wants it.
أَعْطَى الْفَلَّاحُ قَمْحًا ثَمَنًا لِلْحِصَانِ.
The farmer gave wheat as the price of the horse.
Plural
أَثْمَانٌ / أَثْمُنٌ
Word family
What the root means ث م ن
The article opens on the number eight: taking an eighth of someone's goods, being the eighth. It then gives a second idea, that of goods being costly, of high price; from this one come the price and what is precious.
precious, costly
ثَمِينٌ
to be costly, to be precious
ثَمُنَ
to have a price, to be valuable
أَثْمَنَ
eight
ثَمَانِيَةٌ
an eighth
ثُمُنٌ
Synonyms
value, worth
قِيمَةٌ
It is what the thing is really worth, whereas the headword is the amount seller and buyer settle on, which may be above or below it.