أَرْبَعِينَforty

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Wealth and Knowledge on Trial →

• 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.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• 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.

  From: A Companion at Battle →

• 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.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →