All times in Arabic
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The time 12:30 in Arabic is written السّاعَةُ الثَّانِيَةَ عَشرَةَ وَنُصفٌ .
The pronunciation is as-saa3atu ath-thaaniyata 3ashrata wa nuSfun
This Arabic time expression literally means the 12th hour and half
Below, I go through the details of the time expression.
as-saa3atu = the clock
السّاعَةُ (pronounced as-saa3atu) means the clock
Learn how to write clock in Arabic
ath-thaaniyata 3ashrata = the 12th
الثَّانِيَةَ عَشرَةَ (pronounced ath-thaaniyata 3ashrata) means the 12th.
It is a sequence number, that obviously refers to the 12th hour.
wa = and
The particle وَ (pronounced wa) means and.
نُصفٌ (pronounced nuSfun) means halv. Thirty minutes is half an hour.