دِينَارٍdinar

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  دِينَارِ — dinars. This is the counted unit, 'dinar', and in the hundreds-counting pattern it appears singular and in the 'of' (genitive) ending even though many coins are meant. It names what the number measures, completing 'a hundred and twenty dinars'.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →