How to say "fifty" in Arabic
CognateMeaningfifty
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
خَمْسُون
khamsūnח'מסון
خمسون
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
חמישים
khamishimخَامِيشِيم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
خ-م-سHebrew root
ח-מ-שחמישים and khamsūn: the same חמש/khams root pluralized the same way in both languages.
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
خَمْسِين
khamsīnח'מסיןOblique -īn form in speech: khamsīn — also the name of the hot desert wind that blows roughly fifty days a year.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
خَمْسِين
khamsīnח'מסיןMoroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
خمْسِين
khemsīnח'מסיןIn a phrase
خَمْسُون دُولَار
khamsūn dūlārח'מסון דולארfifty dollars