أَرْبَعِينَ forty in Arabic
أَرْبَعِينَ is how you say “forty” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قَالَ أَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا دِرْهَمًا تَسْتَعِينُ بِهَا عَلَى مَا أَنْتَ عَلَيْهِ
He said, "Forty thousand dirhams to help you with your present condition."
أَرْبَعِينَ forty
A 'tens' numeral 'forty', in the shape Arabic uses for such round numbers regardless of its place in the sentence. It heads the counted-amount phrase with the unit-noun after it.
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More example sentences
وَأَنَا مُذّ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةٍ أَصُومُ النَّهَارَ وَأَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ،
And for forty years I have fasted during the day and stood in prayer at night,
أَرْبَعِينَ forty
This is the round-number 'forty', one of the 'tens' that count in a distinctive way: it takes a SINGLE counted noun after it, in a special form, where English would use a plural. So the number governs the noun that follows in the singular, a quirk of Arabic counting that the next word shows.
أَرْبَعِينَ وَمِائَةً سَبْعِينَ أَسِيرًا
Two hundred and ten prisoners.
أَرْبَعِينَ forty
The tens-number 'forty', carrying the special ending these tens take when counting; it leads a string of numbers totted up together. It works with the words after it to build a larger compound count.
وَخَدِيْجَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِنْتٌ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةٍ
Khadijah was then forty years old.
أَرْبَعِينَ forty
A numeral ('forty'), the owned half of 'daughter of FORTY [years]', giving her age. With the age-idiom 'daughter of' it expresses 'forty years old', and it leads into the counted noun that follows.