لَيَالٍ nights in Arabic
لَيَالٍ is how you say “nights” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
تَعْلَمُ مَنْ تُخَاطِبُ مُنْذُ ثَلاَثِ لَيَالٍ يَا أَبَ هُرَيْرَةَ
You know whom you have been addressing for three nights, O Abu Hurayrah.
لَيَالٍ nights
The counted noun in the 'three of nights' phrase, left indefinite and sitting in the genitive because the number before it governs it. Its ending is the signal that it is the thing being counted rather than a free-standing subject.
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فَمَكَثَ فِيهِ ثَلاَثَ لَيَالٍ
So he stayed in it three nights.
لَيَالٍ nights
The counted noun after 'three'; Arabic's number rules put a noun counted by three-to-ten into the plural and the genitive, which is why it reads 'nights' with the -in ending. The numeral governs the noun's case, completing 'three nights'.