أثناء

See also: إثناء, أبناء, and اثناء

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ث ن ي (ṯ-n-y)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaθ.naːʔ/

Noun

أَثْنَاء • (ʔaṯnāʔ) pl

1. plural of ثِنْي (ṯiny, “duplication; a single repetition of a thing; time”)

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of the former.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaθ.naː.ʔa/

Preposition

أَثْنَاءَ • (ʔaṯnāʔa)

1. during, in the course of
   • 2017 October 20, “الاحتلال يزعم إحباط عمليتي دهس وطعن”, in AlQuds.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 October 2017:

     .السائق الفلسطيني اصطدم اثناء هروبه بالشاحنة بسيارة خاصة وأخرى للشرطة دون يتسبب ذلك بإصابات

     The Palestinian driver, in the course of his flight in his truck, collided with a private car and another car belonging to the police without this being cause for injuries.

Inflection

Inflected forms
Base form					أَثْنَاءَ (ʔaṯnāʔa)
Personal-pronoun- including forms	Singular		Dual	Plural
	Masculine	Feminine	Common	Masculine	Feminine
First person	أَثْنَائِي (ʔaṯnāʔī)			أَثْنَاءَنَا (ʔaṯnāʔanā)
Second person	أَثْنَاءَكَ (ʔaṯnāʔaka)	أَثْنَاءَكِ (ʔaṯnāʔaki)	أَثْنَاءَكُمَا (ʔaṯnāʔakumā)	أَثْنَاءَكُمْ (ʔaṯnāʔakum)	أَثْنَاءَكُنَّ (ʔaṯnāʔakunna)
Third person	أَثْنَاءَهُ (ʔaṯnāʔahu)	أَثْنَاءَهَا (ʔaṯnāʔahā)	أَثْنَاءَهُمَا (ʔaṯnāʔahumā)	أَثْنَاءَهُمْ (ʔaṯnāʔahum)	أَثْنَاءَهُنَّ (ʔaṯnāʔahunna)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: əsna
• → Ottoman Turkish: اثنا (esna)
• → Persian: اثنا (asnâ)
• → Urdu: اثنا (asnā)
• → Uzbek: asno