All times in Arabic
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The time 16:20 in Arabic is written السّاعَةُ الرَابِعَةُ وَثُلثٌ .
The pronunciation is as-saa3atu al-raabi3atu wa thulthun
This Arabic time expression literally means the 4th hour and a third
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
al-raabi3atu = the 4th
الرَابِعَةُ (pronounced al-raabi3atu) means the 4th.
It is a sequence number, that obviously refers to the 4th hour.
wa = and
The particle وَ (pronounced wa) means and.
ثُلثٌ (pronounced thulthun) means third. Twenty minutes is a third of an hour.