Arabic vocabulary

خَمْسٍfive in Arabic

خَمْسٍ 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

وَدَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي عُمُومَتِهِ فَتَزَوَّجَهَا وَهُوَ ابْنُ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةٍ،
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, entered into his general protection and married her when he was twenty-five years old.
خَمْسٍ — five. A numeral ('five') forming the first part of the compound 'five and twenty'. It works with the noun 'son of' to build the age, and joins the next word by 'and' to complete the count.
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