Arabic vocabulary
أَلْفٌthousand in Arabic
أَلْفٌ is how you say “thousand” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
كل ليلة ينزل سبعون ألف ملك من السماء إلى الأرض إلى مسجد بيت المقدس
Every night, seventy thousand angels descend from the sky to the earth, to the mosque of Bayt al-Maqdis.
أَلْفَ — thousand. alf means 'thousand'; the '-a' ending — counted with 'seventy'.
From: Angels at al-Aqsa →
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