مِائَةَone hundred

Example sentences

• فَجَاءَتْنِي فَأَعْطَيْتُهَا عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَةَ دِينَارٍ

  Then she came to me, so I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars.

  وَمِائَةَ — and one hundred. A numeral 'a hundred' prefixed with wa-, where the wa- adds it to the 'twenty' just stated to make the full count. This 'and' is the standard way Arabic strings number-parts together, here producing one hundred and twenty.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ قَتَلَ مِائَةَ نَفْسٍ

  Then he said, 'He killed one hundred people.'

  مِائَةَ — one hundred. This is a number-word standing as the object of 'killed', the total tally, so it takes the object-style (accusative) ending. It heads a counting pairing with the singular noun that follows, the Arabic way of saying 'a hundred of (a) person'.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →