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أَلْفٍ a thousand in Arabic

أَلْفٍ is how you say “a thousand” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَلْبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ الْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَلْفِ أَلْفٍ مَرَّةٍ

And the believer's heart is better than the Frequented House by more than a thousand thousand times.

أَلْفٍ a thousand

The numeral 'thousand' repeated and stacked as the owner of the first, so the pairing multiplies into 'a thousand thousand' (a million). The doubling is a rhetorical way to pile up the figure into a vast, almost uncountable amount.

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