خَمْسِ five in Arabic
خَمْسِ is how you say “five” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أَمَّا أَنْ يَصُدَّهُمْ عَنْ الْفَرَائِضِ الْخَمْسِ ؛ فَحَاشَا لِلَّهِ ،
As for turning them away from the five obligatory prayers, God forbid.
الْخَمْسِ the five
A definite number with al- ('the five'), trailing 'the obligatory duties' and agreeing with it in definiteness, so it specifies them as the five daily prayers. The numeral attaches to the noun before it the way an adjective would.
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More example sentences
وَأَقَامَ بِوَاسِطِ خَمْسِ سِنِينَ يَخْدِمُ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ،
He remained for five years, attending to his own needs by himself.
خَمْسِ five
A number word heading a counted phrase. In Arabic a number like this binds tightly to the noun it counts, forming an 'of' pairing with it, which is why the following 'years' takes its object shape. The number leads and the counted noun follows as the thing being measured.