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خَمْس five in Arabic

خَمْس is how you say “five” in Arabic.

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ومن نسي صلاةً من الخمسِ ولم يدرِ عينَها، لزِمَه الإتيانُ بجميعِ الخمسِ،

If someone forgets one of the five prayers and does not know which, they must perform all five.

الْخَمْسِ the five

'the five,' in the -i form after 'of' — the five daily obligatory prayers. The forgotten one is somewhere among them, but unidentified.

From Purification Without Water

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ومن نسي صلاةً من الخمسِ ولم يدرِ عينَها، لزِمَه الإتيانُ بجميعِ الخمسِ،

If someone forgets one of the five prayers and does not know which, they must perform all five.

الْخَمْسِ the five

'the five,' in the -i form, owned in 'all of the five.' Since he cannot tell which prayer he missed, praying ALL five guarantees the forgotten one is covered.

From Purification Without Water

وعقيب الخمس ، في أن يصلحك ويوفقك والزم ولا بد آية الكرسي في دبر الصلوات المفروضة ،

And after the five prayers, to guide and aid you, and always adhere to Ayat al-Kursi at the end of the obligatory prayers,

الخَمْسِ the five prayers

The al- marks this definite, 'the five (prayers)', and it sits in the possessed, 'of'-type ending because the time-word 'after' before it owns it: 'after the five'. The owned half takes this ending to fix the moment meant.

From True Devotion

خَمْسَةُ ذُكُورٍ وَخَمْسُ إِنَاثٍ،

Five sons and five daughters.

خَمْسُ five

A number word, 'five', here in the form Arabic uses when the thing counted is feminine — the reverse-gender rule, so the bare numeral pairs with feminine 'daughters'. It heads 'five daughters' and governs the counted noun after it.

From Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow

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