khamsin خمسين
Moroccan Darija · numeral
“khamsin” (خمسين) is a numeral in Moroccan Darija meaning fifty.
Meanings
- fifty
Usage
Khamsin is the number fifty. It comes before the noun, which stays singular: khamsin derhem, khamsin 3am. It combines with units using w: wahed w khamsin. For tens beyond one hundred, say miya w khamsin. In talk about money, confusion between dirhams, rials and centimes is common: alf ryal corresponds to fifty dirhams, and large sums are often given in centimes, as in khamsin melyoun. Do not confuse it with khmstach, "fifteen".
Example
فوق من خمسين درجة
foq mn khamsin daraja
“Above fifty degrees.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khamsin” but also “khmsin”, “5amsin”, “khemsin” and “5emsin”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “khamsin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “fifty”: khamsin in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “fifty”: khamsin in Tunisian.