No. 456 in Persian
دقیقه
Minute.
In a sentence
لطفاً ده دقیقه صبر کنید.
Please wait ten minutes.
In this sentence, "دقیقه" is used to denote a unit of time (minute).
جلسه ما در بیست دقیقه آینده آغاز میشود.
Our meeting will start in twenty minutes.
Here, "دقیقه" is again referring to a unit of time but is part of an expression of future timing.
من هر هفته دو ساعت و سی دقیقه ورزش میکنم.
I exercise two hours and thirty minutes every week.
In this case, "دقیقه" specifies minutes within a mixed hours-and-minutes duration.
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