Arabic vocabulary
رَكْعَةrak'ah
How to say “rak'ah” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ مَرَّةً فِي سَبْعِ عَشْرَةِ رَكْعَةٍ
Seventeen times in seventeen rak'ahs.
رَكْعَةٍ — rak'ah. The counted noun after the teen numeral, kept singular ('prayer-unit') as the teen rule demands, and indefinite (no 'al-'). It sits in the genitive ending under the 'in', naming what the seventeen are counting.
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