خَمْسِينَfifty

Example sentences

• ـ وَكَانُوا خَمْسِينَ رَجُلًا ـ

  There were fifty men.

  خَمْسِينَ — fifty. The number 'fifty' standing as what they amounted to after the 'were' verb, so it takes the object-style ending that such verbs give their completion. It states the count the group came to.

  From: A Companion at Battle →

• وَقَعَ لِي مِنْهُ نَحْوَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ مُجَلَّدًا

  I obtained about one hundred and fifty volumes from it.

  وَخَمْسِينَ — and fifty. This token fuses the linking wa- with the number 'fifty', joining it to the previous 'hundred' to form 'a hundred and fifty'. Here the wa- is doing arithmetic linkage, not list-building, gluing two number-parts into one total. It completes the compound figure.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →