مِائَةِone hundred

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  وَمِائَةِ — and one hundred. This joins the connector wa- to 'a hundred', adding it to the 'twenty' to make 120. Arabic builds such compound numbers by stringing the parts with 'and', so the wa- here is doing arithmetic, not chaining clauses.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →