رَكْعَةٌunit of prayer

Example sentences

• فَادْخُلْ فَصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ

  Then enter and perform two units of prayer.

  رَكْعَتَيْنِ — two units of prayer. This is the dual form, Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' shape, here meaning two prayer-cycles. Where English needs the separate word 'two', Arabic folds the count into the noun's -ayn ending, so the number rides inside the word itself.

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