How to say "millennium" in Arabic
CognateMeaningmillennium
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
أَلْفِيَّة
alfiyyaאלפיה
ألفية
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אלף שנה
elef shanaإِلِف شَانَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
أ-ل-فHebrew root
א-ל-ףThousand is thousand: Arabic alf and Hebrew אלף are the same Proto-Semitic word — regular أ↔א, ل↔ל, ف↔פ. Alfiyya, 'millennium', is simply 'a thousand-ful', built the same way as usbūʿ, 'week', from sabʿ, 'seven'.
Related Hebrew word:אלףelefإِلِف
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In a phrase
الْأَلْفِيَّة الثَّالِثَة
al-alfiyya ath-thālithaאל-אלפיה א-ת'אלת'הthe third millennium