Arabic vocabulary

خَمْسُfive in Arabic

خَمْسُ is how you say “five” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ الصَّلَوَاتُ الْخَمْسُ وَالْجُمُعَةُ إِلَى الْجُمُعَةِ وَرَمَضَانُ إِلَى رَمَضَانَ مَكَفِّرَاتٌ لِمَا بَيْنَهُنَّ إِذَا اجْتُنِبَتِ الْكَبَائِرِ
The Messenger of Allah said: The five prayers, Friday to Friday, and Ramadan to Ramadan are expiations for what is between them, if the major sins are avoided.
الْخَمْسُ — the five. An adjective, 'the five', describing the prayers before it and matching them in definiteness. It fixes the number of the obligatory daily prayers as a quality of the noun.
From: What Small Worship Erases →

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