mataano
- five hundred. Five hundred. The cardinal number 500, typically used in compound numbers with thousands (magana mataano = five hundred).
Example: na thigari cia mbarathi magana mataano. (1 Mc 5:24–36. When the Jews had gone about a mile from there From there : not from Jamnia (vv. 8–9) or Joppa (vv. 3–7), but from a place in Transjordan; vv. 10–26 parallel the account given in 1 Mc 5:9–13, 24–54 of Judas’ campaign in northern Transjordan. in the march against Timothy, they were attacked by Arabians numbering at least five thousand foot soldiers and five hundred cavalry.); na thigari cia mbarathi ngiri igĩrĩ na magana mataano (2,500). (Meanwhile, Maccabeus divided his army into cohorts, with a commander over each cohort, and went in pursuit of Timothy, who had a force of a hundred and twenty thousand foot soldiers and twenty-five hundred cavalry.)